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Written Question
Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
Friday 24th May 2024

Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review report First Do No Harm, published on 8 July 2020, what steps they will take to provide monetary compensation for people adversely affected by clinical and surgical pelvic mesh.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

It has not proved possible to respond to this question in the time available before Dissolution. Ministers will correspond directly with the Member.


Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Annual report of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee 2023-24

Report May. 22 2024

Committee: Health, Social Care and Sport Committee

Found: Boards periodic scrutiny _____________________________________________ 8 Experiences of the Complex Mesh


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

May. 15 2024

Source Page: CHERI adoption and diffusion research
Document: (PDF)

Found: ResAuto Automotive MoatE Edge Computing High Security Communications Infrastructure using peer to peer Mesh


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 15 May 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Green (LD - Chesham and Amersham) the patient safety commissioner in the Hughes report recommend a redress scheme for women harmed by surgical - Speech Link


Written Question
Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
Tuesday 7th May 2024

Asked by: Desmond Swayne (Conservative - New Forest West)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report from the Patient Safety Commissioner entitled The Hughes Report: Options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh, published on 7 February 2024, whether she is taking steps to implement the recommendation that women treated with mesh should be compensated.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Government commissioned the Patient Safety Commissioner (PSC) to produce a report on redress for those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. We are grateful to the PSC and her team for completing this report, and our sympathies remain with those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. The Government is now carefully considering the PSC’s recommendations, and will respond substantively in due course.


Select Committee
Correspondence to the Foreign Secretary relating to the Shortages of medical supplies in Egypt - 4 March 2024

Correspondence Apr. 23 2024

Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)

Found: pressure on the Egyp�an health system and a n umber of medical items are now in short supply, including surgical


Written Question
Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
Friday 19th April 2024

Asked by: Siobhan Baillie (Conservative - Stroud)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to The Hughes Report, published by the Patient Safety Commissioner on 7 February 2024, if she will ensure that people impacted by bowel mesh are eligible for financial redress.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Government commissioned the Patient Safety Commissioner (PSC) to produce a report on redress for those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. We are grateful to the PSC and her team for completing this report, and our sympathies remain with those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. The Government is now carefully considering the PSC’s recommendations and will respond substantively in due course. Bowel mesh, also known as rectopexy mesh, did not fall within the definition of pelvic organ prolapse that the PSC investigated for her report.


Written Question
Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
Thursday 18th April 2024

Asked by: Andrew Selous (Conservative - South West Bedfordshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when her Department plans to make a decision on financial redress for those harmed by pelvic mesh or sodium valproate.

Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)

The Government commissioned the Patient Safety Commissioner to produce a report on redress for those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. We are grateful to the Commissioner and her team for completing this report and our sympathies remain with those affected by sodium valproate and pelvic mesh. The Government is now carefully considering the Commissioner’s recommendations and will respond substantively in due course.


Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Home Office

Apr. 12 2024

Source Page: Non-technical summaries granted in 2024
Document: Non-technical summaries: projects granted in 2024, January to March (PDF)

Found: Mullet will be collected using two pole seine (3 mm mesh and 3x2 m dimensions), cast net (5 mm mesh


Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Apr. 09 2024

Source Page: MHRA FOI performance data
Document: (Excel)

Found: Information not heldFOI 23/752How many incidents have been reported on ophthalmic surgical devices over