Sarah Boseley, health editor PIP breast implant warnings were not given fast enough by regulators and private clinics, MPs say. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP MPs are highly critical of the regulators and private cosmetic clinics that took nearly two years to warn more than 40,000 women that the breast implants they received were substandard. In...
Press Association Around 40,000 women in the UK received implants manufactured by the French company Poly Implant Prothese. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images A woman who was given PIP breast implants that ruptured has recouped the full cost of the surgery from her credit card company. She said Lloyds TSB refunded her £3,700 on the...
Reuters Jean-Claude Mas holds a PIP breast implant. Photograph: Eric Estrade/AFP/Getty Images Jean-Claude Mas, the Frenchman who sparked a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants, has been jailed after not paying his bail, according to a judicial source. Mas was released from police custody on 27 January on bail of €100,000 (£83,000),...
Esther Addley Miles Dickson, a surgeon at Spire’s hospital in Harpenden, says he never used PIP products, but has had ‘loads of emails’ from concerned former patients. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The phone calls started in mid-December – just a handful at first, but increasing so rapidly that soon a phone line...
Press Association Protesters march down Harley Street to call for private clinics to replace PIP breast implants without charge. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Around 60 women marched to Harley Street on Saturday calling for private clinics to replace PIP breast implants. The group met in London with placards which read “Toxic Time Bombs” and “Health...
Sarah Boseley, health editor Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, told the Commons he did not think the NHS should foot the bill for the removal of breast implants. Photograph: PA Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, intends to pursue through the courts the cosmetic industry companies that are refusing free operations to women wanting substandard...
Sarah Boseley and Kim Willsher Breast implants should be removed for free on the NHS if women are concerned, the government has said. Photograph: Durand Florence/SIPA/Rex Features Women who are concerned about breast implants made by the scandal-hit French company PIP should be able to have them removed for free, either by the NHS...
Rebecca Smithers 50,000 women in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer every year and 43% of those have a breast removed surgically. Photograph: Mauro Fermariello/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RM To read some of our tabloid newspapers – which are not adverse to showing the odd bare breast – you might be seduced into...
Denis Campbell, health correspondent Defective silicone gel breast implants are believed to have been used in up to 40,000 women in Britain. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters The health secretary hit out at private healthcare firms for providing little or no information on how many French-made PIP breast implants have ruptured in Britain, despite the huge...
On 23 December, I was concerned to hear Andrew Lansley making bland assurances about the issues of risk from Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) breast implants (Report, 24 January). What women who had the implants needed was a realistic review of the issues. What they got was Lansley saying that the government had “no evidence”...
