Surgical Mesh Implants

(asked on 7th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many complaints were made to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency regarding transvaginal mesh implants in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 15th September 2017

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Adverse Incident Report figures with regards to Transvaginal Mesh Implants are as follows:

Years

Count of Incident Number

2006

26

2007

5

2008

12

2009

12

2010

41

2011

52

2012

99

2013

106

2014

276

2015

392

2016

265

Grand Total

1,286

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