I've just (last Saturday) had my hip resurfaced on the NHS, coming home on the Monday after just less than 48 hours. I wouldn't recommend it as a rest cure - and I will fight off the temptation to post a picture of the huge bruise on my right buttock - but I was genuinely impressed by the care I received. In part this was because the NHS has realised that small general facilities are just less good than large specialist facilties; Mr Quarashi, my consultant, and his team, only do hips and knees, but they do hundreds of them and the success rate is very high indeed. Would I have preferred to have gone to a small cottage hospital where they do a much wider variety of surgery? No way, I wanted somone who really understood hips.
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