Sling The Mesh in the news: 2022
News headlines, features and discussion about Sling The Mesh in 2022. Includes national recognition for campaign founder Kath Sansom and the health secretary’s pledge to look into financial redress for mesh-injured women.
Sling The Mesh founder Kath Sansom wins the National Agent of Change category at the She Inspires Awards:
- National award for Cambridgeshire women’s health campaigner. CambsNews
- Campaigner Kath Sansom wins a She Inspires award. Peterborough Matters
- Among the people to congratulate Kath was her MP, health secretary Steve Barclay:
Congratulations to Kath Sansom who has been named the Agent of Change National winner at the She Inspires Awards 2022 for all the work done to highlight the issues with vaginal mesh @SheInsprAwrds #sheinspires
— Steve Barclay (@SteveBarclay) November 25, 2022
Specialist centres for those affected by mesh implants, as recommended by the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, became operational formally in April 2021. Health Service Journal reviews how they performed in their first year.
Lisa Megginson had her transvaginal mesh tape surgically removed in April after years of health problems – and now she has taken the unusual step of donating it to a museum. BBC News
Former surgeon Anthony Dixon – accused of negligence by dozens of patients he tried to treat with a rectopexy mesh – has complained that the resulting controversy has caused him a “loss of libido”. Metro
Dixon is suing his former employer Southmead Hospital to try to stop documents being released to solicitors acting for his ex-patients. But his attempt to not be named in that case failed. BBC News
‘This tiny piece of tape is ruining my life’: women left in agony by vaginal mesh still struggling to get help. iNews
Russell-Cooke secures victory – and £970,000 payout – in vaginal mesh negligence case. Russell-Cooke
An NHS surgeon who performed bowel mesh operations has anonymity bid thrown out after stress complaint. Daily Mail
Health secretary Steve Barclay to investigate financial redress for mesh-injured. Cambs Times
Health secretary Steve Barclay meets ex-Cambs Times journalist over Sling The Mesh – and makes pledge to look into providing financial compensation for women left in life-altering pain. HoldtheFrontPage
Are these Britain’s most sexist surgeons? From crude sexual remarks to crass misogyny, a dossier of offensive comments made to mesh surgery victims by their specialists poses a disturbing question. Daily Mail
Sling The Mesh founder Kath Sansom – Alec Shelbrooke, co-chair of the Surgical Mesh All-Party Parliamentary Group – speak to GB News about the mesh implant scandal:
Why are mesh victims still being betrayed two years after excoriating official inquiry? Investigation reveals no recommendation has been implemented properly and its use in women is still continuing. Daily Mail
More than 200 women were harmed when a rogue surgeon carried out laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy procedures on them unnecessarily, an NHS inquiry found. Anthony Dixon performed pelvic floor surgery instead of offering less invasive alternative treatments. The Guardian
The people making a difference: she was devastated by vaginal-mesh surgery. Now she helps others recover. The Guardian
The network of specialist mesh removal centres, recommended by the Cumberlege review, are “not working” – with GPs often unaware of them, MPs have been told. The BMJ
- Letter to the BMJ in response to this article.
A proposed new training pathway for treating complications of pelvic mesh implants needs more input from patients and more consistent supervision of surgical procedures being carried out, campaigners have urged. The BMJ
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency is to investigate the decision by US device manufacturer Boston Scientific to stop marketing its urogynaecology mesh products in Australia and New Zealand. The BMJ
Camp Beagle joins forces with Sling The Mesh to highlight the awareness of mesh implant surgery. Cambs Times
Michele McDougall endured 18 years of immense pain after mesh implants used to repair hernias. Daily Record
Sling The Mesh submits evidence to the Scottish Parliament. Read the submission
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