Review of child hip surgery cases to begin in January, HSE confirms

Temple Street hospital in Dublin (Niall Carson/PA)

A review of the individual cases of children who may have undergone unnecessary hip surgeries will not take place until January, the HSE has confirmed.

It comes after a clinical audit of surgeries for dysplasia of the hips in children found that a lower threshold for operations was used at CHI Temple Street hospital and the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh (NOHC) than the threshold used at CHI Crumlin.