When we talk about trust in healthcare, we usually picture doctors and nurses doing their best for the people they serve. We rarely picture corporate spreadsheets, political backchannels, or money quietly changing hands. Yet that blind spot is exactly why studies like Sharon Batt’s Healthcare Partnerships, Medical Scandals and Canada’s Lack of Transparency in Pharmaceutical Donations are so important. Batt’s […]
Story courtesy of the Daily Mail A disgraced surgeon whose botched treatments injured over 450 patients has cost the NHS nearly £20million in compensation payouts, it can be revealed. Anthony Dixon, 65, was struck off last year after two separate tribunals found he had committed misconduct. He was found to have used surgical mesh to treat bowel complaints without patients’ […]
We welcome the speech in Parliament today that recognised the mesh‑injured community in the new refreshed Women’s Health Strategy, thanks to Health Minister Karin Smyth who explicitly acknowledged how our pain was ignored for years. That recognition did not happen by accident, it happened because we made a fuss, typing emails furiously – refusing to let the mesh‑injured community be […]
Today the government launched the refreshed Women’s Health Strategy and we are deeply upset to see no mention of mesh injured women and mesh centres in the media announcements from Government nor of the need for pelvic floor physiotherapy education for girls in school – despite a pledge for better education around periods. A brief reference to the postcode lottery […]
Our thoughts and deepest respects are with French actor / theatre director and hernia mesh advocate Arnaud Dennis who is in an assisted dying clinic in Belgium. In this powerful interview the 42 year old speaks about how he is awaiting approval for euthanasia after devastating complications from a hernia mesh that destroyed his life. In this final public appeal, […]
Members of Sling The Mesh, already affected by physical injury, mental health distress and financial harm, have experienced a further breach of trust – while seeking legal redress. In good faith scores of our members instructed solicitor Darren Hanison of Fortitude Law to act for them. He promised justice and compensation. Instead, some were subjected to what a tribunal has […]
We are urging the Prime Minister to commit to a long‑overdue compensation scheme for women harmed by pelvic mesh – and set out a clear timeframe and firm dates for action.
⌛Five years in the making! Sustained pressure from Sling The Mesh helped drive the development of a new patient questionnaire with a Leeds University research team to record outcomes before and after pelvic floor surgery – including Bulkamid. We were in Leeds this week for one of the final workshops. This matters because there has never been a patient‑reported outcome […]
As we mark two years since the publication of the Hughes Report, a Westminster Hall debate was held that gave a stern warning to government – do not cruelly give women false compensation hope. Following the debate, Wes Streeting was interviewed by ITV, where he made a statement saying he intends to be the Health Secretary who finally delivers on […]
Calls are being made for the government to commit to a compensation scheme as the second anniversary approaches of a landmark report setting out steps needed to support women harmed by health treatments. February 2026 marks the second anniversary of the Hughes Report, a defining moment in the fight for compensation and justice for women harmed by pelvic mesh medical […]
