PIP breast implants: Harley Medical Group will not replace implants

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BBC News - PIP breast implants: Harley Medical Group will not replace implants

The Harley Medical Group, which fitted more PIP breast implants than any other UK cosmetic surgery firm, says it will not replace them free of charge.

It claimed replacing the banned implants would put the company out of business.

The government says private clinics who fitted implants have a "moral duty" to remove them.

However, the NHS will pay to remove, but not replace, implants if a private clinic refuses or no longer exists.

Around 40,000 women in the UK have been fitted with PIP implants. The Harley Medical Group said it fitted 13,900 women with the implants between September 2001 and March 2010.

Its chairman Mel Braham said the company had neither the resources, the surgeons, nor the operating facilities needed to do the surgery.

This is disgraceful behaviour by the private clinics. They were the ones who got their patients into this mess by giving them the wrong breast implants, and they should be made to pay for their mistakes, by replacing the implants- the NHS should not be made to pick up the bill.

 

[Billnew]

Sorry,
the implant was approved by whom? The same people that now say the private company should happily replace them now.

One company using goverment approved prostetics should fork over millions of dollars of money they don't have to fix a problem that the goverment caused?

Sorry, if goverment takes on the responsibility to ensure products are safe, they must bare the blame when that product proves to be dangerous.

If a Dr knowingly implants a faulty product, they should be forced to replace it, if they in good faith, place a product that the goverment agency tells them is safe, then the goverment is responsible or the maker of the faulty product, not the Dr that installed them.