NHS patients who undergo elective hernia repairs are being left with a life-time of pain because surgeons are not getting enough practice.<\/p>\n
It is recommended that surgeons who perform hernia repairs should carry out 25 operations a year.<\/p>\n
Currently most surgeons are nowhere near this target. One in five will carry out one hernia repair every year. The average is less than two a month.<\/p>\n
In the South West of England, just 9% of surgeons meet the recommended number of 25 hernia repairs a year.<\/p>\n
As a result of this inexperience, patients are being left with long-term pain. Paul Baskerville, a London surgeon, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cEight to 12 per cent of patients going for elective hernia repair end up with chronic groin pain which they didn\u2019t start off with.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou start off with something that\u2019s a nuisance and end up with pain for the rest of your life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Have you suffered from substandard surgery?<\/b><\/p>\n
If surgical errors have caused you to suffer complications, you need to talk to a solicitor about the options available.<\/p>\n
If there has been a case of medical negligence, you could be able to pursue a claim for compensation. Contact us today to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NHS patients who undergo elective hernia repairs are being left with a life-time of pain because surgeons are not getting enough practice. It is recommended that surgeons who perform hernia repairs should carry out 25 operations a year. Currently most surgeons are nowhere near this target. One in five will carry out one hernia repair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[470,472,471,412,447],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surgical-negligence","tag-hernia-repair","tag-pain-after-hernia-repair","tag-poor-hernia-repair","tag-surgical-error","tag-surgical-negligence-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}