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Joint Replacements: Post-operative Care

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 25606, tabled on 10 May 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of psychological support for post-surgical orthopaedic infections.

Answered on

15 May 2024

We have made no such assessment. Anyone experiencing mental ill health as a result of a post-surgical orthopaedic infection should speak to their general practitioner, or refer themselves to their local NHS Talking Therapies service.