{"id":1201,"date":"2025-05-26T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbnlitigation.ie\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2025-05-27T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:42:25","slug":"hip-surgery-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbnlitigation.ie\/ru\/legal-advice\/hip-surgery-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Surgery Negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 2,000 Irish families affected by possible paediatric hip surgery negligence<\/h2><\/span>
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A report into hip surgery negligence involving Irish children will be published this month. The report will likely make for shocking and upsetting reading for the many parents and young adults affected by the latest scandal in Irish paediatric surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Minister for Health ordered the independent review in July 2024 to investigate dysplasia of the hip surgery at <\/span>Children’s Health Ireland<\/b> hospitals and the <\/span>National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The dates for the review cover the years from 2021 to 2023 at the three CHI sites and the NOHC, and the narrow window will give an idea of the extent of the possible errors in paediatric hip surgery carried out during those years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The HSE has written to 2,259 families who may be affected by Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip <\/span>surgery negligence<\/span><\/a> going back over the last 15 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the number of families affected by the paediatric hip surgery negligence, the report will bring many children into focus and with a lot of detail to be dug out of the findings by concerned parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Yet another paediatric surgery report?<\/h2><\/span>
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Unfortunately, the need for another report came to light as the surgery to correct developmental dysplasia of the hip is being called into question when some children reach skeletal maturity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Questions are being raised if every child who underwent the surgery actually needed it at all. The clinical audit is of a randomised group during the two years in question and will look at if the children needed the hip surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

CHI announced that they were writing to the parents of all children who underwent paediatric dysplasia of the hip surgery since 2010. The letters are being sent to inform them of the report’s publication and what it could mean for now older children who may have undergone unnecessary DDH surgery at their hospitals. In all, they sent 1,757 letters to concerned families.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NOHC also issued a statement saying they had written to another 502 parents of the children who may be affected by surgical negligence at the hospital by having unnecessary DDH surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

The initial report will indicate the extent of what may have happened in the hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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What will be in the hip dysplasia surgery report?<\/h2><\/span>
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The report will feature a look at a random sample of hip dysplasia surgeries carried out at the three hospitals between 2021 and 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report will consider:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>