In an announcement at the Commons yesterday, Health Secretary Andrew Lansely reiterated the statement released on Friday 6 January that the NHS will remove breast implants for women who had these implants on the NHS and will also remove breast implants for women treated privately where their clinic has ceased trading or will not help them, if there is a health risk to them. He again reiterated that he hoped the cosmetic clinics would step in to treat their patients so that this burden does not fall on the NHS.
A Review to examine the standards of private clinics was also announced by the Health Secretary. This will be carried out by the Care Quality Commission and will report back by the end of March.
Mr Lansley was criticised in his handling of this matter by the Shadow Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, who stated that he has sent ‘mixed messages’ to women and has left them ‘fending for themselves.’
Mr Lansley did not take the same step as the Welsh Government who announced that the NHS would remove and replace PIP breast implants for all women affected who live in and are registered with a GP in Wales if they can show that they have sought assistance from their implanting clinic but that they failed to assist.
The Harley Medical Group, one of the British companies that implanted the most number of PIP breast implants have today confirmed that they will not replace these implants free of charge claiming that doing so would put them out of business.
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