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- The National Health Service (NHS) has secured two alternative bone cement suppliers to address a packaging fault at Heraeus Medical.
- The disruption could delay hip and knee replacement surgeries.
- The new suppliers are Zimmer Biomet High Fatigue G and Johnson & Johnson CMW Smartset GHV Gentamicin, both clinically assured.
- Health officials are rescheduling postponed surgeries and prioritizing urgent cases as about 850,000 patients await joint treatments in England.
