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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

London hospital pioneers new approach to hip and knee surgery

Patient Cheng Ong (second from front left) alongside staff who treated her at Chase Farm Hospital

(Picture: Royal Free London NHS Trust)

A London hospital has pioneered a new approach to orthopaedic surgery that allows patients to go home on the same day of their hip and knee replacement surgery.

Patients at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield were able to go home just hours after their surgery ended.

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