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Hip replacement surgery: routine or rationed?Creative Commons Image New hip / Oka Tai-Lee / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

By Linda Kenward (The Open University)

09 February 2012

Linda Kenward looks at how hip replacement surgery has become a more common procedure over the years and wonders whether a healthier, longer-living population stretches... Read more : Hip replacement surgery: routine or rationed?

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OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee 2010 - Obesity surgeryBy Tacit Requiem via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

By The Ethics Committee web team (The Open University)

03 August 2010

Episode 3: An NHS surgeon is treating more and more obese patients whose private treatment has gone wrong. What should he do? Read more : OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee 2010 - Obesity surgery

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By Margaret Hales (Guest)

03 August 2006

Former chair of Milton Keynes General Hospital Trust Margaret Hales says that you have to remember the people who can get lost behind NHS statistics... Read more : Bed blockers

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The science behind forensicsBBC

By Professor Allan Jamieson (Guest)

18 January 2006

"Forensic science is just recent archaeology", says Allan Jamieson, Director of the Forensic Institute, Edinburgh, as he explains how the same science can solve recent... Read more : The science behind forensics

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Pages tagged as Surgery

Hip replacement surgery: routine or rationed?Creative Commons Image New hip / Oka Tai-Lee / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

OU on the BBC: Inside The Ethics Committee 2010 - Obesity surgeryBy Tacit Requiem via Flickr under Creative Commons licence

Bed blockersProduction team

The science behind forensicsBBC