Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to ensure that translabial scans are available at every acute hospital where urogynecologists and gynaecologists are seeing women for pain and complications after the implantation of pelvic mesh.

Translabial scans will not be available in all acute hospitals that are seeing women with mesh complications, as they are not routinely used in the assessment of women with mesh and mesh complications. Translabial scans have not been validated in large studies and there is no evidence base to support routine use in this situation; they are currently only used as a research tool.