What is mesh? It’s a plastic medical device used as a quick fix implant in operations to fix prolapse, incontinence, hernia, some mastectomies. But it can cause irreversible life changing pain & complications - impacting the patient, their partner & families #slingthemesh
🌸It was great to connect with final-year St Martin’s fashion student Olivia Ascough, who got in touch to ask if she could include #pelvicmesh in a project she has developed on medical misogyny and hysteria as part of her final year studies. https://t.co/2fsZeNPQnl
@AndyBurnhamGM It’s thanks to Marie that we had the Independent Medicines and Medical Device Review instigated by Theresa May - yet these families have been dropped from talks of government compensation 🥲
It’s thanks to Marie at the Primodos campaign that we had the Independent Medicines and Medical Device Review instigated by Theresa May - yet they’ve been dropped from talks of govt compensation 🥲
PM was expected to respond on sodium valproate compensation. While his reply is of course good news for #mesh families# it leaves the valproate community behind. He should be addressing both at this stage.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer today recognises the urgent need for financial redress for women avoidably harmed by Pelvic #Mesh and #sodiumvalproate in PMQs
Patients globally harmed by polypropylene #plastic surgical #mesh face a wall of institutional denial and a lack of care pathways.
Joining online support groups is often their first step to finding information on why they are so ill. #slingthemesh
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It's more than two years since the #HughesReport and 6 years since the #FirstDoNoHarm report called for financial redress for women avoidably harmed by #pelvicmesh YET STILL NO GOVERNMENT COMMITMENT to compensate women avoidably harmed.
@MeshCampaign We were so hopeful when we met @JuliaCumberlege + participated in the #Firstdonoharm report + yet again with #HughesReport but still we wait with broken bodies + broken lives. We are not getting any younger, it is 22yrs since mesh ruined my life. We need #redress NOW not in 10yrs
💙❤️ Today marks 11 years of #SlingTheMesh It's been relentless hours of hard work, lobbying politicians, securing media coverage, contributing to major reviews, pushing for better regulation, registries & guidelines. Also tears. Espcecially for #mesh friends we have lost.
💰💵Hidden industry funding influences health research as the money can lead to benefits being overstated and risks being downplayed. ⚠️This is a massive #patientsafety issue with real-world consequencesand definitely played a role in the #mesh scandal
'Edinburgh health board SHOULD pay compensation - Samantha Hindle, 47, suffered 19 years of "agonising pain" from a surgical mesh implant https://t.co/0uCQqg0Zkg
At last - study of explanted bladder #mesh slings from one of the UK's mesh centres shows people with mesh complications have measurable changes in their body's immune system suggesting complications may be partly driven by systemic inflammation
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Harmed patients face a wall of institutional denial - no more so than in the #mesh scandal where for years patients have been gaslit & told their pain is anything but mesh. Left without care, without answers, without justice. This must change. https://t.co/4XxIw7WIKY