{"id":109453,"date":"2025-10-29T01:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109453\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:33:11","slug":"jersey-signs-up-for-joint-replacement-surgery-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/109453\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey signs up for joint replacement surgery register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Details of joint replacement surgeries are being added to an orthopaedic register, health officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">They said Jersey had joined the National Joint Register, which looks at data on joint replacement surgeries to improve outcomes for patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It already has records of 4.5 million operations performed in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and Guernsey, with an estimated 250,000 added each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Health and Care Jersey said it had joined the register to help &#8220;enhance orthopaedic care&#8221; for patients at home and benefit from research and innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The register, which is said to be the largest in the world, aims to monitor the performance of joint implants and identify best practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Simon West, a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon and medical director for Health and Care Jersey, said the move showed &#8220;a clear commitment to the ongoing quality and safety of orthopaedic services&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The National Joint Register has recorded and monitored joint replacement outcomes for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Elaine Young, its director of operations, said they would be able to monitor and analyse the performance of implants and joint surgery performed at Jersey General Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Details of joint replacement surgeries are being added to an orthopaedic register, health officials said. They said Jersey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-109453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}