Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the specialist mesh treatment centres that opened on 1 April 2021, if he will publish details of (a) what data is to be recorded following mesh removal and (b) the database to be used for that data collection.

The specialist mesh removal centres are required to send data to the Pelvic Floor Registry database as part of the Surgical Devices and Implants Data Collection, which is in development at NHS Digital. The registry will include data from the specialist mesh removal centres, including Patient Reported Outcome measures and will feed into the wider Medical Devices Information System, which covers all implantable devices. The data collected will be used to build a picture of longer-term outcomes associated with surgical procedures and will also facilitate a track and trace function in the event of safety concerns with particular mesh.

Details of the data collection and the Technical Data specification are available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/corporate-information-and-documents/directions-and-data-provision-notices/data-provision-notices-dpns/surgical-devices-and-implants