{"id":106221,"date":"2025-10-29T01:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106221\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:45:10","slug":"jersey-signs-up-for-joint-replacement-surgery-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106221\/","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":106222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-106221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}