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Author summary Why was this study done? Joint replacements are among the more frequent elective surgeries performed in developed settings. In England, inequalities in provision of joint replacement surgery were reported more than a decade ago, followed by a national effort to reduce these inequalities. In a context of increasingly strained National Health Service funding and hospital budgets, alongside prolonged efforts to increase surgical capacity, it is unclear what impact these have had on inequalities in provision of joint replacement for osteoarthritis. What did the researchers do and find? We conducted an analysis of the National Joint Registry using all primary hip and knee replacements for osteoarthritis performed from 2007 to 2017 in England, merged with the Office for National Statistics official population statistics, to investigate inequalities in provision of surgery according to deprivation by patient area of residence, age, sex, and trends in these inequalities ov

City ofUnited kingdomNorthern irelandUnited statesDistrict of columbiaCeramtec gmbSanjay basuFreshfields bruckhaus deringerDepartment of healthFair society healthyNational joint registryHealthcare quality improvement partnershipNational joint registry steering committeeWhile the united kingdom national health serviceNational institute of health researchNational health service