Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ban vaginal mesh operations.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has considered all evidence available to them, both here in the United Kingdom and worldwide, and their view is that both the evidence and the greater proportion of the clinical community supports the use of these devices as part of an appropriate treatment pathway.

The NHS England mesh oversight group’s final report, published in July 2017, recommended that surgical mesh should not be routinely offered as the first surgical intervention when treating prolapse which is in alignment with the recommendations of the Scottish Independent Review.

The report also sets out a number of actions which improve the support available for women who have suffered with complications including being able to be referred to 18 trusts in England that have the specialist multidisciplinary teams and experience to assess complications and offer the highest quality support.