When industry influences healthcare patient safety suffers. Raising awareness of surgical mesh harm #prolapse #hernia #rectopexy #breast #SUI @kathsansom
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More outrageous comments made to members of our support group #medicalmisogyny #medicalgaslighting
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Sepsis can kill in hours. For some women harmed by surgical mesh, it has meant intensive care, induced comas, organ failure and a fight for survival. More than half our support group live with recurring UTIs and a fear of becoming antibiotic resistant. slingthemesh.co.uk/when-mesh…
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Great to attend an event hosted by @UKSepsisTrust and hearing about plans to improve care for patients. More than half of mesh injured suffer constant UTIs, many end up in A&E and sadly some of our members have died of #sepsis
Know the signs:
sepsistrust.org/
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❤️💙 Mesh redress returned to Parliament again today, with powerful contributions, including Health Minister Dame Diana Johnson who confirmed she had watched the MAZE mesh documentary and expressed determination to see this issue addressed within the lifetime of this Government
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😱More outrageous examples of things said to our Facebook support group members by their doctor #medicalgaslighting #medicalmisogyny
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More great news for the campaign. Sharon Hodgson and Sir Julian Lewis raised financial redress for women harmed by pelvic mesh in the House of Commons. The Leader of the House recognised the profound impact on women and frustration over the lack of a response to the Hughes Report
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❤️💙 Women around the world are watching The Mesh Scandal: Ruining Women's Lives documentary which has reached 700,000 views across the globe and screened in Parliament. A huge achievement helping more women make informed decisions 💙❤️ youtube.com/@mazedocs?si=-Az…
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More appalling examples of medical gaslighting and #medicalMisogyny experienced by members of Sling The Mesh. These attitudes are not only dismissive and harmful, they are a significant patient safety concern.
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Women with pelvic mesh complications say they're 'floating in the system' according to new research. Delays, repeated investigations and uncertainty leave them feeling unheard. The study highlights the value of specialist services and clinicians who listen slingthemesh.co.uk/navigatin…
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😱 Real comments from healthcare professionals to members of our Facebook support group.
#Medicalgaslighting and #medicalmisogyny is a hallmark of the mesh scandal. Women reporting complications are too often dismissed or disbelieved, leaving them without the care they need.
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The Medical Mesh Scandal Ruining Women's Lives youtu.be/n7kEATR2G-8?is=Cy86… via @YouTube
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😱Medical gaslighting is a huge issue for people injured by surgical #mesh affecting both women and men. To suffer avoidable harm and then face disbelief, dismissal, or ridicule from the professionals you turn to for help is a profound betrayal of trust.
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💙❤️The Mesh documentary is now live. Watch, subscribe, comment. The flimsy science, the weak regulations and the scandal of women's lives irreversibly damaged must never be forgotten. #pelvicmesh #mesh youtube.com/watch?v=n7kEATR2…
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A new documentary on the #Mesh scandal premieres Thurs 1 Oct. We've supported an award-winning international team of female filmmakers examining the flawed evidence, weak regulation and patient safety failures that harmed women globally. Subscribe & watch youtube.com/@MazeDocs
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More medical gaslighting and #medicalmisogyny from our Dismissive Files. Real things said to our members by health care 'professionals'.
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Medical gaslighting and #medicalmisogyny has been a hallmark of the mesh scandal with outrageous comments made by healthcare professionals to our members. Here are just some of the comments posted into the support group. Shared with permission.
#slingthemesh #firstdonoharm
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😱 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.
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⚠️😱 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.
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📌🥼🩺 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.
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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…
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❤️💙 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.
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Grateful to MP Sharon Hodgson for today calling for compensation for women harmed by Pelvic Mesh and sodium valproate.
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Parliament is sitting again after summer recess so it’s back to London to push on with the campaign #slingthemesh
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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
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☀️We've been lobbying for Sunshine legislation for over a decade. Govt consulted in 2023 and this year we attended 4 Dept of Health workshops on it. A decision is due in autumn. If you'd like to support please email slingthemesh@gmail.com - thanks
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Absolutely outrageous. We've been campaigning for Sunshine Legislation for over a decade.
📌Want to help? Get in touch slingthemesh@gmail.com
📌We can send you a template letter to send to Health Innovation Minister James Frith. slingthemesh.co.uk/9764-2/
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Absolutely appalling. Head to our website to read many of our blogs about why we need Sunshine legislation that requires pharma and device industry to log all payments - including research - on a central open database
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📅 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...
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⚠️ 🚑 In 2000 & 2003 doctors warned that #TVT mesh slings lacked long-term evidence. They also said widespread removals could have serious consequences for women and the NHS. That tragic prophecy is now being played out in mesh removal centres across the UK.
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Thankyou @SaferSurgeryUK for inviting me to speak at your annual conference to represent the voices of the #mesh injured community.
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🔖☀️Please email your MP and ask them to write to Health Secretary Yvette Cooper asking her to support mandatory Sunshine-style legislation requiring disclosure of industry payments to the UK health sector. It's time to bring these payments into the light for #patientsafety
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💰£929 million in pharma funding to UK health sector. Let that sink in
➡️ The Assoc of British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is resisting full disclosure of R&D payments
😱There's no disclosure for medical devices like #mesh
➡️ Disclosure UK link abpi.org.uk/media/blogs/2026….
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Today is July 16 the deadline that Patient Safety Commissioner Henrietta Hughes gave the govt to give long awaited news about compensation to women avoidably harmed by #pelvicmesh & #sodiumvalproate but all we hear is empty silence from Westminster as MPs break for summer recess
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We are grateful to Andy Burnham for his first speech to Parliament on #Hillsboroughlaw which praises the fight by women's campaigners for justice and accountability for Mesh, Primodos, Sodium Valproate and PIP implants
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Grateful for the Patient Safety Commissioner's continued commitment to securing financial redress for women harmed by #PelvicMesh patientsafetycommissioner.or…
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❤️💙 Our thoughts are with the family and loved ones of former Senator Derryn Hinch, the first Australian politician to listen to mesh-injured women, shining a light on “one of Australia’s greatest medical scandals.” A proud supporter of #SlingTheMesh and a true mesh hero.
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💙❤️ As we approach the 8th anniversary of the UK bladder #mesh sling suspension our latest blog looks at how thousands of women have been spared from mesh harm. From more than 10,500 women implanted with a mesh sling in 2008 to just 22 in 2025/26.
LINK slingthemesh.co.uk/mesh-slin…
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Opinion column
in the Daily Mail recently. Women avoidably harmed in the #mesh scandal have been treated
absolutely terribly
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💰💵£929 MILLION from Pharma to the UK health sector in 2025! But still no mandatory disclosure from the medical device sector makers of products such as surgical #mesh @CarolineVoaden
abpi.org.uk/media/blogs/2026… abpi.org.uk/media/blogs/2026…
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Thankyou so much @BBCBreakfast for covering the story of the urgent need for compensation for women harmed by #pelvicmesh Huge thanks to Mandy for sharing her story and to the Patient Safety Commissioner for continuing to put pressure on the government youtu.be/R_B87_cROg0?si=Yzai…
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Huge thanks to our #slingthemesh member Mandy interviewed on BBC Breakfast this morning calling on the government to give compensation to women harmed by #pelvicmesh
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In 2020 the First Do No Harm report called for compensation for women harmed by #PelvicMesh
In 2024 the Patient Safety Commissioner renewed those calls
In 2026? Promises and platitudes but no action.
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I asked what I thought was an easy mesh data question
➡️How many women had a bladder or bowel removed and live with a #stoma where pelvic #mesh eroded into their organs? 😪A devastating complication of mesh
➡️Nobody at NHS England can answer
BLOG: slingthemesh.co.uk/how-can-t…
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Huge thanks to Damian Murtagh for continuing the #hernia #mesh fight for awareness and improved #patientsafety. His calls for informed consent and leaflets in GP surgeries are falling on deaf ears.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer today recognises the urgent need for financial redress for women avoidably harmed by Pelvic #Mesh and #sodiumvalproate in PMQs
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