Sling The Mesh in the news: 2021
News headlines, features and discussion about Sling The Mesh in 2021. Includes the topic of mesh removal featuring in an episode of BBC drama Casualty.
An inquest heard that Wiltshire woman Jacquie Kingston’s death followed a chain of events that included mesh surgery carried out in May 2016 by colorectal surgeon Tony Dixon, who has since been dismissed by North Bristol NHS Trust. Leigh Day
Women requiring the surgical removal of mesh implants say “very little” has happened since a landmark Scottish Government announcement in the summer. BBC News
Campaigners want gynaecological conditions to be given greater priority by the NHS as women report increasing cancellations for procedures. Independent
NI woman Susan McLarnon calls on the Government to address vaginal mesh scandal. She said women have been left “virtually high and dry” over the lack of Government progress on the Cumberlege inquiry into drugs and procedures that caused them or their babies considerable harm. Belfast News Letter
Campaigners, families and lawyers call on the health secretary to implement recommendations made by the Cumberlege Inquiry, which examined the use of vaginal mesh, the epilepsy drug sodium valproate and the hormone pregnancy test Primodos. Independent
MPs to debate Government’s failure to act on pelvic mesh inquiry findings. Wisbech Standard
A study from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, in collaboration with the University of Liverpool and the Karolinska Institute, shows fibromyalgia is likely the result of autoimmune problems. King’s College London
Sling The Mesh founder Kath Sansom works with BBC Casualty scriptwriters to raise awareness of complications from pelvic mesh implants. Kath said it was “massive” for the topic to feature in the drama, which is watched by about four million people. BBC News
Surgeons who will work at new specialist mesh centres throughout England hope to establish their competence through credentialing in the field of pelvic mesh removal surgery, in the absence of a recognised training programme. The BMJ
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