HC Deb 30 October 1995 vol 265 cc45-6W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proposals he has to reduce the percentage of revision of total hip replacement operations. [39821]

Mr. Sackville

The Department of Health plans to support research and evaluation programmes aimed at improving the safety, performance and life of total hip replacements. These include assessment of the clinical performance of implants by explant studies; the development of techniques to predict long-term clinical outcomes from short-term clinical data; and the development and assessment of new materials and technologies. The Department of Health is also supporting an analysis of the data from a five-year outcome study of total hip replacements in the Trent region.