Surgical Mesh Implants
(asked on 29th August 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if there is a Hospital Episode Statistics code used to record instances of mesh used for rectopexy.
The latest National Clinical Coding Standards, code OPCS-4 2025, which are used in the Hospital Episode Statistics dataset to capture procedure information, includes four codes for use where a procedure concerns the insertion or removal of a mesh. These should be combined with other treatment codes to indicate where a mesh was used for a procedure, including for rectopexy procedures. The following table shows the relevant procedures and their coding:
Procedure | Procedure code | |
Rectopexy, abdominal posterior resection | Without mesh | H35.3 H10.- (if the sigmoid is resected) |
With mesh | H35.2 Y28.1-Y28.4 H10.- (if the sigmoid is resected) | |
Rectopexy, ventral mesh, which may also be described as anteior rectopexy with mesh or VMR | Open | H35.5 Y28.1-Y28.4 |
Laparoscopic | H35.5 Y75.- Y28.1-Y28.4 | |