Part of The Joint Replacement Guide — Phase 6: The Bigger Picture · Article 40 of 44 · Hip & Knee Key Points Your Right to Choose If you are being referred for a first outpatient appointment for planned, consultant-led NHS treatment in England, you will usually have a legal right to choose the healthcare…
Part of The Joint Replacement Guide — Phase 6: The Bigger Picture · Article 44 of 44 · Hip & Knee Key Points A Strong Starting Point It is easy for discussion about the “future” to imply that current joint replacement is becoming outdated. That would be misleading. Conventional hip and knee replacement, performed by…
Part of The Joint Replacement Guide — Phase 6: The Bigger Picture · Article 43 of 44 · Hip & Knee Key Points Pain Is More Than a Signal from the Joint Pain is real, but its intensity is not determined solely by the amount of cartilage loss visible on an X-ray. Pain is produced…
Part of The Joint Replacement Guide — Phase 6: The Bigger Picture · Article 42 of 44 · Hip & Knee Key Points What Revision Surgery Means The National Joint Registry defines revision broadly as an operation in which one or more components of a joint replacement are added to, removed or modified. Its reporting…
Part of The Joint Replacement Guide — Phase 6: The Bigger Picture · Article 41 of 44 · Hip & Knee Key Points Three Different Arrangements Discussions about “NHS versus private” can be confusing because there are actually three common arrangements: An operation performed in an independent hospital is therefore not necessarily privately funded. NHS…
Part of The Joint Replacement Guide — Phase 6: The Bigger Picture · Article 39 of 44 · Hip & Knee Key Points What GIRFT Is Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is a clinically led NHS England improvement programme. It combines analysis of routinely collected healthcare data with the experience of senior clinicians to…
Part of The Joint Replacement Guide — Phase 6: The Bigger Picture · Article 38 of 44 · Hip & Knee Key Points You can view my published NJR information through the Surgical Outcomes page of this website. What Is the NJR? The National Joint Registry records information about hip, knee, ankle, elbow and shoulder…