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Commons Chamber
Medicines and Medical Devices Bill
2nd reading - Mon 02 Mar 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) Equally, we have heard heartbreaking stories in this House about the surgical mesh scandal. My hon. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Ashworth (LAB - Leicester South) Unlike medicines and drugs, many surgical innovations can be introduced without clinical trial data or - Speech Link
3: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) mesh, which shows a clear need for the legislation in this area to be tightened. - Speech Link
4: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) However, as the Minister knows, in the cases of valproate, Primodos and surgical mesh, which we have - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
A Green Industrial Revolution - Wed 15 Jan 2020
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (LAB - Pontypridd) His work here, particularly campaigning on surgical mesh implants, will change the lives of women not - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Health Service Safety Investigations Bill [HL]
2nd reading (Hansard): House of Lords - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord O'Shaughnessy (CON - Life peer) in both on a regular basis, and some of the most egregious medical scandals—breast implants, vaginal mesh—have - Speech Link
2: Lord Ribeiro (CON - Life peer) These practitioners increasingly support routine care of surgical patients under the supervision of senior - Speech Link
3: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) The agency established what is now universally regarded as an excellent idea: the surgical checklist. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hernia Mesh in Men - Thu 05 Sep 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I stress again that in no way can I ever accuse surgical teams of deliberately withholding information - Speech Link
2: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) independent review published in March last year in Scotland made eight recommendations—notably that surgical - Speech Link
3: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) Some surgical experts claim that complications occur in as many as 30% of hernia mesh surgeries, and - Speech Link
4: Nadine Dorries (CON - Mid Bedfordshire) Mesh is therefore used in approximately 97% of all surgical inguinal hernia repairs in England.All the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hormone Pregnancy Tests - Tue 23 Apr 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Gordon Marsden (LAB - Blackpool South) meta-analysis, when only recently the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence used it to reinstate surgical - Speech Link
2: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) February 2018, Baroness Cumberlege began a joint non-scientific review into Primodos, sodium valproate and mesh - Speech Link
3: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) Cumberlege has taken on her new role of looking at hormone pregnancy tests, sodium valproate and medical mesh - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 - Thu 07 Mar 2019
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None support discovering and verifying adverse events in the development of medical devices, such as the surgical - Speech Link
2: None The RCS has stressed that all new surgical procedures and devices should be registered, with related - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Medicines and Medical Devices - Thu 28 Feb 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) I will concentrate on surgical mesh, but I recognise that the review has a much wider significance, assessing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jolly (LDEM - Life peer) In the case of surgical mesh, it seems that there was a degree of gender bias, meaning that women’s pain - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (CON - Life peer) I shall move on to some of the specific questions about surgical mesh. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Exiting the European Union (Medicines) - Tue 19 Feb 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Sharon Hodgson (LAB - Washington and Sunderland West) something that we should get wrong, but when we do, as in the case of Primodos, valproate and vaginal mesh - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Licensing of Medical Devices - Tue 12 Feb 2019
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Owen Smith (LAB - Pontypridd) on patients for 80,000 knee joints, 60,000 hip replacements, 50,000 pacemakers and 7,000 usages of surgical - Speech Link
2: Paul Masterton (CON - East Renfrewshire) Gentleman for the work he does as chair of the all-party group on surgical mesh implants. - Speech Link
3: Owen Smith (LAB - Pontypridd) All these things desperately need to be looked at.The terrible truth is that the surgical mesh scandal - Speech Link


Written Statements
Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review Update - Tue 10 Jul 2018
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) of conducting the review into what happened in each of the cases of primodos, sodium valproate and surgical - Speech Link