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The National Mesh Implant Forum was held in Melbourne on Friday April 5, 2019, to consider all aspects of Australia’s mesh implant crisis. The event brought together mesh injured consumers, carers, regulatory authorities, health officials, the Chair of the Senate Inquiry into mesh and consumer advocates to create solutions and bring about real change. The forum considered not only the impact of pelvic mesh and rectocele implants, but the emerging parallel crisis involving people who have received mesh implants for hernia treatment. The Forum was proudly convened by Health Issues Centre, Health Consumers NSW, Health Consumers Queensland, Health Consumers’ Council (WA), [...]

UNFINISHED BUSINESS – A NATIONAL FORUM ON THE IMPACT OF MESH IMPLANTS With the conclusion of the Senate Inquiry into transvaginal mesh and the subsequent response by the Federal Government, many people assume that the tragedy of the mesh crisis has been addressed and future injury averted. Unfortunately, whatever lessons have been learned, many thousand mesh injured women are still enduring daily pain as a consequence of their implants. Some women have been suffering for more than a decade. Many women have told their practitioners that they’ve had an adverse outcome, but doctors and surgeons have not believed them. The financial, [...]