Andrew Lansley announces safety review into PIP breast implants

The NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has asked regulators to check statistics held by plastic surgery clinics in this country.

It follows concerns about the record of implants made by Poly Implant Prothese, the bankrupt French company at the centre of a major scandal, after it was found to be making implants out of industrial silicone, instead of the medical version it was authorised to make.

More than 300,000 women worldwide are understood to have received the implants since the company adopted the practice in 2001, in a bid to cut costs.

They include around 50,000 women in this country.

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