{"id":195,"date":"2011-05-18T14:38:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T14:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-05-18T14:38:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T14:38:53","slug":"medical-device-recalls-paper-prompts-concern-in-parliament-and-further-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/2011\/05\/18\/medical-device-recalls-paper-prompts-concern-in-parliament-and-further-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical device recalls paper prompts concern in parliament and further coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BMJ Open and BMJ articles (see previous post) and the Channel 4 Dispatches episode on the regulation and recall of medical devices has been covered in various newspapers and even prompted a question in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>MPs Paul Flynn and Peter Bottomley tabled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/edm\/2010-11\/1819\" target=\"_blank\">Early Day Motion 1819<\/a> noting the findings of the research and calling for &#8216;a review that will ensure that UK patients have guarantees on the safety  and efficacy of devices equivalent to that of patients in the US&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times brought together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/71730f00-7fd2-11e0-b018-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1MiHvMxOn\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> the BMJ content with <a href=\"http:\/\/eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2011\/05\/13\/eurheartj.ehr171.abstract?sid=dfddcd61-36a6-4cc0-a265-b6199c430018\" target=\"_blank\">this paper<\/a> in the European Heart Journal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/8515099\/Faulty-medical-implants-leave-NHS-with-costly-bill.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/posts\/view\/246727\/Why-a-new-hip-may-be-dangerous\" target=\"_blank\">The Express<\/a> covered the story, as did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1387459\/How-faulty-implants-thousands-patients-lives-risk.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Mail<\/a>, which also included a slightly sinister-looking diagram; The Guardian published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/may\/16\/medical-devices-lack-clinical-data\" target=\"_blank\">this blog<\/a> from one of the authors, Dr Carl Heneghan.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BMJ Open and BMJ articles (see previous post) and the Channel 4 Dispatches episode on the regulation and recall of medical devices has been covered in various newspapers and even prompted a question in Parliament. MPs Paul Flynn and Peter Bottomley tabled Early Day Motion 1819 noting the findings of the research and calling [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/2011\/05\/18\/medical-device-recalls-paper-prompts-concern-in-parliament-and-further-coverage\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjopen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}