HOSPITALS used by East Lancashire patients for hip joint replacement operations have been given the all-clear.
Up to 5,000 patients who underwent hip replacements using a 3M Health Care product between 1991 and 1997, are to be recalled for checks after an official warning that many of the joints used may be faulty.
But today East Lancashire Health Authority announced that none of the local NHS hospitals it used for the replacement operations had fitted the 3M fitting.
Checks were carried out with Burnley and Blackburn hospitals, Airedale General, Royal Preston and Wrightington.
A health authority spokesman said it was possible that people living in East Lancashire may have had replacements fitted in other parts of the country and advised these people to contact the hospital which carried out the operation.
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