Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his Answer of 13 December to Question 103061 on Surgical Mesh Implants, if he will detail the (a) source and (b) method of collection of other data used in the audit which used the identified National Health Service cohort of patients and the longitudinal record; and whether the collection of that data involved (a) contacting or (b) attempting to contact every patient who had mesh implants in 2010.

In our previous response to Question 103061, we stated that the audit was conducted using Hospital Episode Statistics data and other data using the identified National Health Service cohort of patients. However, NHS Digital has confirmed that only Hospital Episode Statistic data was used in the audit and no other data was employed. Patients were not contacted as part of this audit. We are arranging for the record to be corrected.