Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the interim recommendations of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review into surgical mesh, if he will clarify the conditions that should be met ahead of the resumption of mesh procedures used to treat stress urinary incontinence.

The interim recommendations of Baroness Cumberlege’s review require that the following conditions are met:

- Surgeons should only undertake operations for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) if they are appropriately trained, and only if they undertake operations regularly;

- Surgeons report every procedure to a national database;

- A register of operations is maintained to ensure every procedure is notified and the woman identified who has undergone the surgery;

- Reporting of complications via the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency is linked to the register;

- Identification and accreditation of specialist centres for SUI mesh procedures, for removal procedures and other aspects of care for those adversely affected by surgical mesh; and

- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines on the use of mesh for SUI are published.