When industry influences healthcare patient safety suffers. Raising awareness of surgical mesh harm #prolapse #hernia #rectopexy #breast #SUI @kathsansom
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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
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‘Sharon Hodgson MP, co-chair of the First Do No Harm All Party Parliamentary Group, said: "The lack of progress sends a damaging message to patients that when healthcare systems fail, people can simply be left behind.
"Women affected by the mesh and valproate scandals are still waiting for justice.”
Calls continue for compensation for women harmed by Pelvic Mesh cambstimes.co.uk/news/265637…
Calls continue for compensation for women harmed by Pelvic Mesh cambstimes.co.uk/news/265637…
😱 Coming up: Part 3 of our series exposing the shocking comments doctors have said to our members. Patient safety starts with listening to patients. Too often, that's not happening.
⚠️😱 Coming up in Part 2 of our Medical Gaslighting series, more real comments reported by #SlingTheMesh members. More gaslighting. More humiliation. More women being made to doubt their own suffering.
📌🥼🩺 Over the next 3 days, we'll be sharing some of the worst examples of medical gaslighting reported by our members to mark #WorldPatientSafetyDay 😱 Some of the comments are outrageous.
📢📢 PLEASE GET INVOLVED! 📢📢As a stakeholder involved in the development of new NICE guidance on #hernia #mesh I've been asked to share this survey and help gather as many views as possible.
✅ You do not need to have had a hernia to take part nice.welcomesyourfeedback.ne…
Lived experience matters. That's one of the key messages from a newly published peer-reviewed paper on #chronicpain after #hernia #mesh surgery. To read our blog with a link to the full paper head to our website ⬇️⬇️
slingthemesh.co.uk/new-herni…
A new #hernia #mesh study from France says complications are not logged in registries and the issues patients face are downplayed as depression. More importantly it says patient voice should be taken seriously as evidence in health research.
slingthemesh.co.uk/new-herni…
❤️💙 Our second question this week was raised in Parliament thanks to MP Sharon Hodgson, co-chair of the First Do No Harm All Party Group.
Sharon called for a debate asking - when will the government commit to compensation for mesh injure women as outlined in the Hughes report.
Grateful to MP Sharon Hodgson for today calling for compensation for women harmed by Pelvic Mesh and sodium valproate.
Parliament is sitting again after summer recess so it’s back to London to push on with the campaign #slingthemesh
September is #SepsisAwarenessMonth Many of our members live with recurrent UTIs and some have experienced sepsis. Early recognition can save lives. If you think something is wrong, trust your instincts and ask: “Could it be sepsis?” Find out more by visiting @UKSepsisTrust
📢📚 A new study by the Manchester Mesh Centre team shows growing evidence that mesh may be linked to #fibromyalgia
Read our latest blog to find out more
slingthemesh.co.uk/the-mesh-…
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A British cardiologist involved in treatment guidelines received £50m from drug research contracts, reports #BMJInvestigation.
The case shows what’s at stake in the debate around transparency of doctor-industry relations
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
Absolutely appalling. This is exactly why we need Sunshine Legislation. Head to our website to read our blogs about the need for Sunshine legislation that requires pharma and device industries to log ALL payments, including R&D, on a single central database
A British cardiologist involved in treatment guidelines received £50m from drug research contracts, reports #BMJInvestigation.
The case shows what’s at stake in the debate around transparency of doctor-industry relations
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
The Physiomesh lawsuit is one of the largest #hernia #mesh cases in American history. Ethicon pulled the product in 2016 after patients reported severe complications. Thousands of US claims are moving toward resolution. Wheres justice for patients globally
lawfold.com/physiomesh-lawsu…
📅 2020 Cumberlege calls for transparency on industry payments to the health sector in her #FirstDoNoHarm report after years of our advocacy
📅 2023 Govt consultation
📅 2026 We attended 4 Dept Health workshops but the pushback from industry was fierce
📅 We await the outcome...
2014 clip as hard hitting today as it was then #mesh
Meet Alex Gorsky: CEO of Johnson & Johnson on #Vimeo vimeo.com/92727087?fe=sh&fl=…
You don't have to get it 100% right. When you hit 60% go #patientsafety disasters #mesh
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Forget this clip
Meet Alex Gorsky: CEO of Johnson & Johnson on #Vimeo vimeo.com/92727087?fe=sh&fl=…
You don't have to get it 100% right. When you hit 60% go #patientsafety disasters #mesh
American #mesh injured patients say compensation claims barely cover their mesh complication care costs. hoodline.com/2026/08/washing…
