Sling the Mesh
@MeshCampaign
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When industry influences healthcare patient safety suffers. Raising awareness of surgical mesh harm #prolapse #hernia #rectopexy #breast #SUI @kathsansom
Cambridgeshire
Joined May 2015
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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❤️Delighted to be invited to speak at the International Women's Day event in Peterborough on Saturday 8 March. Grass roots campaigning is so important to keep spreading awareness of surgical mesh harm. @Women_on_IWD #iwd2025 @KathSansom
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❤️Huge thanks to everyone who supports us, including the many journalists who’ve given us incredible coverage on our financial redress campaign. ❤️In the last 24 hours more than 100 people have joined our support group. #hearhervoice #accountabilitynow
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RT @PSCommissioner: I launched the Hughes Report a year ago, on 7 February 2024. I never imagined that a year later I would still be waitin…
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RT @PSCommissioner: One year on from the Hughes Report It is one year since I published the Hughes Report on the options for redress for t…
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A year on from The Hughes Report: Urgent action needed on redress (Patient Safety Learning, 7 February 2025) - Patient Safety Learning - Patient Safety Learning - the hub
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A surgeon who harmed hundreds of people has been suspended for a further 6 months. A tribunal heard Tony Dixon left patients in agony after using mesh to treat prolapsed bowels. He was suspended for 6 months in July 2024. Now extended to Sept 2025
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Safety Commissioner highlights ‘injustice’ over lack of redress for mesh scandal -Dr Henrietta Hughes highlighted that thousands of women’s lives were “destroyed” because of pelvic mesh and there is a “clear case for redress”
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RT @PSCommissioner: It has been a year since I launched the Hughes Report calling for redress for those harmed by #valproate and #pelvicme…
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Safety Commissioner highlights ‘injustice’ over lack of redress for women harmed in the #mesh scandal
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Mandy tells ITV how women injured by pelvic mesh need financial redress. Mandy was a super fit, healthy business woman, but now needs a stick to help her walk. #hearhervoice #womenbetrayed #redressnow
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Govt faces calls to compensate women affected by mesh scandal | UK News | Sky News #hearhervoice #womenbetrayed #redressnow
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Disgraced rectopexy bowel mesh surgeon Tony Dixon has been given a further 6 month suspension from practice. Meantime, catastrophically harmed patients wait to hear if they will receive financial redress #hearhervoice #womenbetrayed #redressnow
Mr Dixon has harmed too many patients - a longer suspension is not near enough. #mesh @MeshCampaign @SlingtheMeshNI
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MP Sharon Hodgson this week calls for a debate into the urgent need for financial redress for women harmed by pelvic #mesh. Today mark‘s one year since @PSCommissioner published the Hughes Report outlining to government how compensation could work. We’re waiting…
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The time for excuses is over. We need action now - Sling The Mesh founder @KathSansom and @PSCommissioner highlight the injustice of harmed women still waiting for financial redress.
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A year on from a major report & women harmed by pelvic mesh & sodium valproate are still waiting for financial redress. #hearhervoice #womenbetrayed
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@associationBTB @CaCommenceAuj @StopVOGfr @AFUrologie @leCNGOF @HAS_sante @Sante_Gouv @BPerineales @ordre_medecins Women around the world are being maimed by mesh. This has to stop #hearhervoice
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On the eve of the one year anniversary of the Hughes Report we are urging the government to fast track a package of financial redress for women harmed by Pelvic Mesh. #hearhervoice #redressnow
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