Sling the Mesh

When industry influences healthcare patient safety suffers. Raising awareness of surgical mesh harm #prolapse #hernia #rectopexy #breast #SUI @kathsansom

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

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

[Kath Sansom @KathSansom]

🌸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

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

Great to catch up with New Zealand mesh campaigners today. Same Mesh. Same mess.

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

@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 🥲

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

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 🥲

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

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.

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer today recognises the urgent need for financial redress for women avoidably harmed by Pelvic #Mesh and #sodiumvalproate in PMQs

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

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

https://t.co/AGDF5QL70d

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

@joannel49716947 @JuliaCumberlege Exactly - we must not be left hanging in limbo for years

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

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.

[Nanny Leopard @joannel49716947]

@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

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

💙❤️ 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.

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

Scottish patients suffering #hernia #mesh complications giventhe go-ahead for a Class Action against Covidien https://t.co/S8dU7vEr3g

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

Lawyer files 500 complaints from French patients suffering from polypropylene #hernia #mesh implants @NICEComms https://t.co/Mp6xz80MRx

[Marie Lyon @Malriel]

This goes back decades Kath. This is why there needs to be Independent scientific scrutiny of all pharmaceutical products @APPGHPTs

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

💰💵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

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

'Edinburgh health board SHOULD pay compensation - Samantha Hindle, 47, suffered 19 years of "agonising pain" from a surgical mesh implant https://t.co/0uCQqg0Zkg

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

Six years since the First Do No Harm report

More than 2 years since the Hughes Report

… and still no compensation for women harmed by Pelvic #Mesh.

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

Make #mesh groundhog day stop.
We’ve been here before.
Now it’s happening again.
#breast #mesh
https://t.co/VQcu196l7S

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

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
https://t.co/MOSvIqO2tK

[Sling the Mesh @MeshCampaign]

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