Patients who need joint replacements have had referrals to a privately-owned Hertfordshire clinic postponed while the NHS addresses managerial concerns.

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The East and North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said it had dropped referrals of joint replacements, which were the "most complex surgical treatments" handled at the centre.

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"With so many people getting joint replacements, even at younger ages, they may not realize when they walk in that hospital door that this can happen to them, " Ms. Bartel says.

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