An ageing population and higher rates of obesity are just some of the factors driving increased demand for new joints.
Some time in the late ’90s, Australia’s orthopaedic community shifted its gaze away from the US to Sweden.
There are now an estimated 75,000 people waiting for a joint replacement operation in Australia. Pandemic restrictions created a backlog which has not cleared, and some public patients are now waiting about year for their new joint. The timing depends on where they are, and the type of joint they require.
them as their joint function worsens. As they get sicker, they become higher operative risks and their outcome becomes less certain.Smith, who is also interim director of the registry, says it has been “an extraordinary value for money proposition”. The total investment, since inception, has been less than $40 million and has saved the Australian healthcare system more than a billion dollars, he says.
“We were first to raise a red flag. It was hard to get that message across because laboratory testing data showed it was a good device. There was some pushback from industry and the suggestion that our surgeons were not doing a good job. It took a couple of years for the registry’s message to strike hard,” Smith says.
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