NHS consultant report on needless hip surgeries

NHS consultant report on needless hip surgeries

Staff at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) have alleged that Dublin hospitals are conducting needless hip surgeries on children. An external report by an NHS consultant has concluded in one Dublin hospital 80 percent of osteotomies on children between the ages of one and seven were unnecessary. This draft report was delivered to CHI management in January. Months later affected families have neither seen the report nor been contacted by CHI. Minist…