With a potential two-year wait for hip surgery in North Wales, Ms McDermott decided to pay for private treatment at the Birmingham hospital. She used some savings as a deposit and is paying the ...

A 79-year-old who suffered complications after a hip operation at a private hospital "would not have died" when she did had she not had surgery, an inquest has heard. Gwynneth Exall, from Swansea ...

‘Hip replacements are the most common operation in orthopaedics,’ says Professor Adrian Wilson, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at private clinic Oveli Healthcare. ‘And what this very clever ...

During the resurfacing operation a surgeon would dislocate my hip, shave the hip socket, removing any residual and worn cartilage, and implant a metal cap. Then he would shave the head of the ...

Here, Thomas Davis, 29, who lives in Basingstoke, Hants, with his girlfriend Heather, and works for the Inland Revenue, tells us about his total hip replacement operation seven months ago ...

The operation was carried out to implant a hip prosthesis to correct problems in the head of the femur caused by osteoarthritis, which caused him permanent pain. Polesello explained that a ...