Question follow-through · 18894
Surgical Mesh Implants
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that vaginal mesh implant procedures do not result in removal surgery.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that vaginal mesh implant procedures do not result in removal surgery.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
A national pause was introduced in 2018 for the use of vaginally inserted mesh to treat prolapse and the use of a retropubic sub-urethral mesh sling to treat stress urinary incontinence. Conditions were put in place for this pause, and NHS England continu...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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