Remembering the artificial hip pioneer whose work continues to transform the lives of millions.
Health Correspondent, BBC North West
Ms Haughton hopes her life is about to change. She's in Wrightington Hospital in Wigan on the outskirts of West Lancashire, preparing for surgery. A lot of that is down to one man, John Charnley, who pioneered hip replacement surgery at Wrightington Hospital in the 1950s and 60s. For years Wrightington had been a tuberculosis treatment centre, but the dramatic fall in cases in the 1950s meant it was largely underused.Friction between materials meant that they wore out, or even squeaked.
"Charnley went through looking at lots of different materials which might work in hip replacement... he actually tried out some of the materials on himself, [putting] bits of the material under his own skin to make sure there weren't reactions to it.""Tuesday night was 'socket night', when he made the sockets for the hip replacements," says Prof Kay.
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