Edit implant patients from private clinics

<p>A review, led by Lord Howe, the Minister for Quality is expected to report to the Health Secretary by the end of March 2012 and will establish what happened in the UK when the MHRA and the DOH learnt about the situation with PIP implants in France.</p> <p>It will cover what information about PIP implants was available from routine adverse reporting systems, what external concerns about PIP implants were brought to the attention of the MHRA or the wider DOH, and when, how these concerns and any related information were handled,  what advice was sought and from whom, what information was shared between MHRA and its counterparts in other countries in the EU and elsewhere, how decisions were taken, and who was involved in this process, what action was taken to safeguard and advise patients and whether action was sufficiently prompt and appropriate.</p> <p>Many, including the women affected and the clinics who implanted the CE marked medical devices in good faith will be anticipating this report with baited breath, hoping for answers in relation to where exactly the buck stops in terms of responsibility for the situation arising in the first place and long term duties of care to those women affected.</p>

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