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RBS Six Nations: Wales 16-21 England

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Wales' medical staff to use replays

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Wales medical staff will have access to instant video replays during the rest of this season's RBS 6 Nations Championship.

It follows incidents involving wing George North, who suffered two blows to the head during last Friday's Six Nations opener against England in Cardiff.

The Wales star took an accidental boot to the head from England lock Dave Attwood in the first-half, and he was temporarily replaced by Liam Williams while he underwent mandatory concussion assessment.

North subsequently returned to the field, but he then clashed heads with team-mate Richard Hibbard during the second-half in what appeared to be a worse incident, which subsequently attracted attention from rugby union's global governing body World Rugby.

North did not go off a second time, playing on as England started their Six Nations campaign with a 21-16 victory.

After any incident like this we will always write our own report, World Rugby asked us for that on Saturday, and we duly delivered the same day.

Since the incident, we have seen where our protocols need to improve.

For the next four games of the Six Nations, we are certainly going to have instant video replays for home and away matches.

– WRU national medical manager Prav Mathema

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