The House of Commons Health Committee has begun a study to explore the feasibility of a nationwide breast implant registry, including the scope and function of such a registry.
“A breast implant registry could be proposed for two different broad purposes,” said David Boudreau, the head of Health Canada’s medical devices directorate. “It could serve to support patient safety notifications, also referred to as ‘track and trace,’ or have a research purpose, or both.”
A possible function of a registry could be to better connect patients with information about recalls or illnesses from breast implants, said Bloc Quebecois MP and health committee vice-chair Luc Theriault, who proposed the committee study. One of the potential barriers to a comprehensive national implant registry is the fact that 85 per cent of breast implant procedures are being done at private clinics.Boudreau said the only existing medical device registry that exists in Canada is for joint replacements, namely hips and knees, and added the potential challenges to a breast implant registry include patient privacy, health information data sharing, and the role of private clinics.
“This is crazy,” Theriault said last February. “The trouble we've had in this file stems from the fact that the problems, in many instances, emerge 10, 15 or 20 years later. The practitioners in question are often retired or no longer in the picture.”
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