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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Storm Newton

NHS to conduct ‘wider review’ after children’s surgeon suspended

A wider review is to be carried out of complex orthopaedic and spinal surgery services (Chris Radburn/PA) - (PA Archive)

NHS England is to conduct a review into complex orthopaedic and spinal surgery services after a surgeon, who specialises in treating children, was suspended.

The suspension came after an external review, which looked at a number of complex paediatric hip surgeries carried out by an individual over the past two-and-a-half years, found treatment provided to nine children fell below standards.

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