Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 3980

Surgical Mesh Implants: Northern Ireland

Tabled: 3 September 2024
Answered: 11 September 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many women in Northern Ireland have been awarded compensation for suffering complications from vaginal mesh implants.

Answer

Where women have received vaginal mesh implants in Northern Ireland and pursued claims for compensation having suffered complications, such claims would be pursued in Northern Ireland’s judicial system, and as such fall under the jurisdiction of the legal...
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