Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are satisfied that patients are getting full information about the risks of mesh and that the use of terms such as tape, ribbon or sling are not misleading patients in seeking to avoid the term mesh.

Patient information leaflets now used in the National Health Service have been developed in a lengthy and comprehensive process across England and Scotland and have been produced in collaboration with the Independent Review of Transvaginal Mesh Implants working group for Scotland. The leaflets provide detail about stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, alternatives to surgery and the success rates, risk and complications of procedures.

In addition, the informed consent process undertaken between clinicians and patients is central to providing information to patients while they are being given the opportunity to decide what treatment options are best for them.