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Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 4, Issue 6 | Pages 2 - 5
1 Dec 2015
Dodd L Sharpe I Mandalia VI Toms AD Phillips JRA

The global economy has been facing a financial crisis. Healthcare costs are spiraling, and there is a projected £30 billion health funding gap by 2020 in the UK. 1. This has prompted a drive for efficiency in healthcare provision in the UK, and in 2012, the Health and Social Care Act was introduced, heralding a fundamental change to the structure of the National Health Service, especially in the way that healthcare is funded in England. 2. What is happening in the UK is a reflection of a global problem. Rationing of healthcare is a topic of much discussion; as unless spending is capped, providing healthcare will become unsustainable. Who decides how money is spent, and which services should be rationed? . In this article we aim to discuss the impact that rationing may have on orthopaedic surgery, and we will discuss our own experiences of attempts to ration local services. 3. We also seek to inform and educate the general orthopaedic community on this topic



Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 12, Issue 5 | Pages 6 - 10
1 Oct 2023
Arnaouti M


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 12, Issue 6 | Pages 6 - 12
1 Dec 2023
Vallier HA Breslin MA Taylor LA Hendrickson SB Ollivere B


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 13, Issue 5 | Pages 8 - 17
1 Oct 2024
Holley J Lawniczak D Machin JT Briggs TWR Hunter J


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 11, Issue 3 | Pages 9 - 11
1 Jun 2022
Foxall-Smith M


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 4 | Pages 5 - 7
1 Aug 2012
Rajasekaran S

In 2006, approximately 1.3 million peer-reviewed scientific articles were published, aided by a large rise in the number of available scientific journals from 16 000 in 2001 to 23 750 by 2006. Is this evidence of an explosion in scientific knowledge or just the accumulation of wasteful publications and junk science? Data show that only 45% of the articles published in the 4500 top scientific journals are cited within the first five years of publication, a figure that is dropping steadily. Only 42% receive more than one citation. For better or for worse, “Publish or Perish” appears here to stay as the number of published papers becomes the basis for selection to academic positions, for tenure and promotions, a criterion for the awarding of grants and also the source of funding for salaries. The high pressure to publish has, however, ushered in an era where scientists are increasingly conducting and publishing data from research performed with ‘questionable research practices’ or even committing outright fraud. The few cases which are reported will in fact be the tip of an iceberg and the scientific community needs to be vigilant against this corruption of science


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 9, Issue 4 | Pages 6 - 10
1 Aug 2020
Machin JT Forward D Briggs T


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 9, Issue 2 | Pages 3 - 6
1 Apr 2020
Myint Y Ollivere B


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 7, Issue 6 | Pages 2 - 8
1 Dec 2018
Murray IR Safran MR LaPrade RF


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | Pages 3 - 7
1 Feb 2018
Donnelly TD Woolf DK Farrar NG


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 2, Issue 3 | Pages 6 - 14
1 Jun 2013
Wallace WA

In the UK we have many surgeon inventors – surgeons who innovate and create new ways of doing things, who invent operations, who design new instruments to facilitate surgery or design new implants for using in patients. However truly successful surgeon inventors are a rare breed and they need to develop additional knowledge and skills during their career in order to push forward their devices and innovations. This article reviews my own experiences as a surgeon inventor and the highs and lows over the whole of my surgical career.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 3, Issue 3 | Pages 2 - 8
1 Jun 2014
Phillips JRA Waterson HB Searle DJ Mandalia VI Toms AD

This is the second of a series of reviews of registries. This review looks specifically at worldwide registry data that have been collected on knee arthroplasty, what we have learned from their reports, and what the limitations are as to what we currently know.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 4, Issue 5 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Oct 2015
Clark GW Wood DJ

The use of robotics in arthroplasty surgery is expanding rapidly as improvements in the technology evolve. This article examines current evidence to justify the usage of robotics, as well as the future potential in this emerging field.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 2, Issue 5 | Pages 8 - 12
1 Oct 2013
Phillips JRA

Not all questions can be answered by prospective randomised controlled trials. Registries were introduced as a way of collecting information on joint replacements at a population level. They have helped to identify failing implants and the data have also been used to monitor the performance of individual surgeons. This review aims to look at some of the less well known registries that are currently being used worldwide, including those kept on knee ligaments, ankle arthroplasty, fractures and trauma.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 3, Issue 6 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Dec 2014
Lewis C Mauffrey C Lewis AC Whiting F

There are significant differences in the methods and styles of orthopaedic surgical training between continents, all with the aim to produce competent consultant surgeons, but the differences in training content and pathway are vast. We review and contrast the key differences between three continents.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 3, Issue 5 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Oct 2014
Unsworth-Smith T Wood D

Obesity is a global epidemic of 2.1 billion people and a well known cause of osteoarthritis. Joint replacement in the obese attracts more complications, poorer outcomes and higher revision rates. It is a reversible condition and the fundamental principles of dealing with reversible medical conditions prior to elective total joint replacement should apply to obesity. The dilemma for orthopaedic surgeons is when to offer surgery in the face of a reversible condition, which if treated may obviate joint replacement and reduce the risk and severity of obesity related disease in both the medical arena and the field of orthopaedics.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 2, Issue 2 | Pages 2 - 7
1 Apr 2013
Colton C

Ancient Egypt was a highly developed agrarian society with a massive civil engineering capability. Trauma and skeletal disease were common and vestiges of the evidence for that survive, largely in the form of hieratic images and papyri dedicated to the practice of medicine. The earliest treatise on trauma is the Edwin Smith papyrus, possibly the work of Imhotep. This study details some remarkable examples of musculoskeletal pathology including fatal open fractures, foot deformity of Tutankhamun, and the earliest recorded instances of child abuse.


Bone & Joint 360
Vol. 1, Issue 4 | Pages 2 - 4
1 Aug 2012
Marcovitch H

By and large, physicians and surgeons trust what they read, even if they take authors’ conclusions with a pinch of salt. There is a world of difference between being cautious about the implications of what you read and being defrauded by dishonest researchers. Fraud and scientific research are incompatible bedfellows and yet are an unhappy part of our research existence. All subspecialties are to blame and orthopaedics is no exception.