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Health secretary promises changes after vaginal mesh report
May 10, 2018 | BBC News
A new group to ensure urgent changes are made to women's healthcare in the Welsh NHS has been announced, after the row over the use of vaginal mesh. -
Derry MLA calls for full investigation on vaginal mesh scandal which has blighted the lives of hundreds of women
May 9, 2018 | Derry Now
SDLP Health Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has hit out at the Department of Health over their “failure” to protect patients suffering following mesh surgery in Northern Ireland. -
SF Calls For Full Public Inquiry Into Dangers On Use Of Mesh Implants
May 9, 2018 | 4ni.co.uk
Sinn Féin has called for a full public inquiry into the facts surrounding the dangers posed by the use of surgical mesh implants.
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Health secretary promises changes after vaginal mesh report
May 10, 2018 | BBC News
A new group to ensure urgent changes are made to women's healthcare in the Welsh NHS has been announced, after the row over the use of vaginal mesh.
It follows an expert report last Friday on the treatment, which has caused complications for some patients.
The report said it should only be used a last resort for patients with incontinence or prolapsed pelvic organs.
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Friday's report, for the Welsh Government, said preventative measures should be promoted more, including services for continence, chronic pain and physiotherapy.
Better information for patients and a "more robust" process of consent are also needed, the experts said.
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething told AMs on Tuesday that a new "implementation group", backed by up to £1m a year, was being set up.
He said: "I expect all health boards to consider the report's findings and recommendations to consider what local improvements can be made immediately.
"Our aim must be to ensure women receive the best possible care and treatment when they present with stress urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse, or any other complications as a result of existing treatment."
Karen Preater from the Welsh Mesh Survivors group said more action was required.
"There needs to be a full public inquiry on why this has happened, how it's got so bad but also, going forward, what about women who are suffering with pain now and how they're dealt with, how they get the help that they need," she said.
Conservative Aberconwy AM Janet Finch-Saunders said she was worried concerns raised by patients, many whom had called for a ban on using the mesh, had not been addressed.
"I do welcome some of the recommendations of the report in terms of the improved services for pelvic pain in health boards across Wales," she said.
"However, I am concerned that north Wales residents with more complex mesh complications will still be forced to travel to Manchester, in the absence of the relevant uro-gynaecologist and urology specialists."
The implementation group will be chaired by Tracy Myhill, chief executive of Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-44052650
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May 9, 2018 | Derry Now
SDLP Health Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has hit out at the Department of Health over their “failure” to protect patients suffering following mesh surgery in Northern Ireland.
The Foyle MLA’s comments follow the publication of a report today that revealed that most surgeons failed to comply with guidelines.
Mr Durkan said: “The publication of this report today will compound the concerns of patients who are suffering following mesh surgery here in Northern Ireland.
“This is the latest scandal in a long list of controversies surrounding mesh surgery here.
“Despite huge efforts by patients and a local campaign to end the suffering patients are living with here, the Department of Health has done little but stick it’s head in the sand.
“While I’ve been working to advocate for those affected the absence of a Minister, means that concerns are falling on deaf ears – and these patients are living with daily pain – the situation is contemptable. It cannot be allowed to continue.
“I have written to the Head of the Civil Service and the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Health to demand that a full investigation take place immediately. Patients deserve answers and action.”
https://www.derrynow.com/news/derry-mla-calls-full-investigation-vaginal-mesh-scandal-blighted-lives-hundreds-women/224375
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SF Calls For Full Public Inquiry Into Dangers On Use Of Mesh Implants
May 9, 2018 | 4ni.co.uk
Sinn Féin has called for a full public inquiry into the facts surrounding the dangers posed by the use of surgical mesh implants.
Speaking today, 09 May, Sinn Féin MLA Órlaithí Flynn made the call following the publication of an audit which revealed most surgeons in NI failed to comply with guidelines on how many vaginal mesh operations they should perform each year.
The West Belfast MLA also strongly criticised the limited extent of the audit, which examined 340 patients who had the procedure carried out in 2013.
Ms Flynn said the recommendations emerging as the result of the audit are "shameful in themselves because they suggest a litany of poor care, practitioners without appropriate training, a lack of appropriate post-operative care, poor data collection and no long term monitoring of outcomes".
"Worse still, despite a recent report by the European Committee on Emerging Health risks which found data collection on mesh surgery outcomes was so poor that informed consent was not possible, the recommendations are still characterising the problem as the need for a 'one to one' discussion," she said.
"We feared the Ashe Audit was commissioned primarily as a distraction to undermine the call for a public inquiry and these fears have not been dispelled by its publication."
http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern-ireland-news/244336/sf-calls-for-full-public-inquiry-into-dangers-on-use-of-mesh-implants
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