Pressure on clinic to agree deal on removing implants

There was growing pressure on the Harley Medical Group last night to agree a deal on the removal and replacement of PIP breast implants from the 1,100 women affected by the defective products.

Representatives of the PIP Action group held a second meeting yesterday with the chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan and a third meeting with the Irish Medicines Board (IMB). The meetings came a day after Dr Holohan told an Oireachtas Committee that he wanted the clinics who inserted the PIP implants to deal with the women affected.

The PIP Action group will hold an information day today in the Red Cow Hotel in Dublin.