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Private hospital news : August 2006

Private Healthcare UK keeps you up to date with the latest treatments available in private hospitals, and developments in the private hospital sector.

Less invasive techniques for joint replacement surgery speed recovery
Hip replacement - minimal invasive scar
Surgical techniques which are less invasive are enabling patients undergoing joint replacement surgery to return to normality much faster. Patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, for example, are...
Cromwell Hospital : New Gamma Knife for stereotactic radiosurgery
Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion™
The Cromwell Hospital, London, are delighted to announce that they will be the first Hospital in the UK to commission the Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion™, Elekta's brand new...
Longer life means more knee problems
Knee treatment - Supartz, joint fluid therapy
The growing number of patients requiring treatment for osteoarthritis is prompting healthcare professionals to search for new, less invasive treatments. Now that people are living longer, many more...
New spinal fusion operation reduces risks
Spinal fusion surgery
A pioneering, minimally-invasive form of spinal fusion surgery  can help to reduce the risks associated with the procedure. Around 5,000 patients with lower back pain undergo spinal fusion...
GBS (Group B Streptococcus ) test available in private clinics
Home birth - GBS test
Women should be made aware of a routine test which could alert doctors to a potentially serious condition in their unborn child, according to a mother whose baby was left with cerebral palsy following...