{"id":85519,"date":"2026-02-25T16:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85519"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:56:31","slug":"nhs-scrambles-to-find-enough-bone-cement-for-joint-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/nhs-scrambles-to-find-enough-bone-cement-for-joint-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS scrambles to find enough bone cement for joint operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WZxix.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Bone cement is used in most of the 250,000 hip and knee operations carried out each year - Sergii Kolesnikov\/iStockphoto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NHS is scrambling to buy enough bone cement to prevent thousands of hip and knee operations from being cancelled. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/nhs-scrambles-to-find-enough-bone-cement-for-joint-operations\/ar-AA1WZJP7?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=76b28319b2de4c5985db984bd43ec0da&amp;ei=14\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The NHS is scrambling to buy enough bone cement to prevent thousands of hip and knee operations from being cancelled. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NHS-nurses.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85520,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85519\/revisions\/85520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}