The hip and knee replacements which need replacing most often have been ranked by scientists in the first studies of their kind. The worst performing knee replacement had a failure rate more than three times as high as the five per cent target. A hip replacement is a routine operation carried out around 175,000 times a year in England, Scotland and Wales. Source: NHS ChoicesAnd ODEP, the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel, sets the same baseline for knee replacements. Around 160,000 hip and knee replacements are carried out in England and Wales every year across approximately 400 hospitals.

Source: Daily Mail April 30, 2019 16:18 UTC