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Breast implant scandal: big clinics agree free removal

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Mr Lansley called on private clinics to honour the “duty of care” he
argued they had to their patients.

The implants were withdrawn from sale in March 2010 after French investigators
found evidence they contained industrial-grade silicone. A wide ranging
fraud appears to have gone on at PIP for years.

Transform, responsible for some 4,000 operations, updated
its website on Wednesday to confirm free removal.

Thanking patients “who have been bearing with us during the last few weeks”,
the firm said: “For any patient who so wishes who had PIP implants at
Transform since 1st January 2001, we will undertake free implant removal”,
as well as a free scan to gauge if they had ruptured “for immediate
peace of mind”.

It added: “Having reviewed costs with our partners, for patients who wish
to have their implants replaced (whether ruptured or not), we will undertake
this procedure at a cost of £2,500. There is not commercial gain for
Transform in this price.”

The Hospital Group, thought to have some 6,000 former clients who received
PIPs from Surgicare, which it took over in 2010, said
in an updated statement it would be offering removal free of charge to
all PIP patients between 2001 and 2009. It is offering removal and
replacement with Allergen implants to former clients for the “subsidised
price” of £1,500.

The statement added: “The Hospital Group are not recommending routine
removal of any PIP implants unless they have ruptured, however we do
recognise that many of our patients who have these implants have become
anxious.

“We have therefore combined a number of options for PIP patients which we
think will go a long way to help and support you.

“The Group would like to take this opportunity to thank those Suppliers
who have allowed us to make this happen based purely on willingness to offer
their services and products in this way.”

However, there was no word from Britain’s biggest user of PIPs, Harley Medical
Group, which provided 13,900 women with them.

It has so far only offered to pay for the cost of new implants, which amounts
to about £150 a pair, and not the cost of surgery.

Some 42,000 women are thought to have received PIP implants after surgery in
Britain, including 3,000 on the NHS for reconstructive surgery.

Article source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9041784/Breast-implant-scandal-big-clinics-agree-free-removal.html


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