Vaginal Mesh removal training

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Dear Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland),

The Public Health Agency and Dept of Health In Northern Ireland have stated that there are surgeons in Northern Ireland who have been trained to undertake mesh removal including full and complete mesh removal. In the interests of transparency and confidence building can you please provide the following information

1. The names of surgeons who have been trained in Belfast Trust (Urogynaecologists, gynaecologists, urologists)
2. Exactly what training they received (was it hands on, practical training? Was it for incontinence Meshes only or also for prolapse meshes?
3. When did this training take place? How long was the training?
4. Who trained them and where this training took place?
5. Any details of follow up or mentorship after training by an experienced mesh removal surgeon elsewhere who has overseen any subsequent removals carried out by these newly trained surgeons to quality assure their work and ensure women are not being put at risk

Can you advise how many TOTAL and COMPLETE removals of TVT, TVTO, TOT and all types of prolapse Meshes have been removed by the following and during what time frame these were done
1.Lucia Dolan
2. Patrick Campbell
3. Siobhan Woolsley
4. Agnieszka Zawislak

Can you also confirm if any of these surgeons have been trained in COMPLETE and FULL Removal of vaginal mesh and if so HOW and WHEN they were trained

If any other surgeon in your trust has received such training can you confirm this and provide their names?

When I talk about complete and full removal of Meshes for stress urinary incontinence I mean complete and total removal of all mesh from the body both urethral and each end/arm of the sling. I am not requesting full removal from urethra as this is not a complete removal

When I talk about complete and full removal of Meshes for prolapse I am again talking about removal of all parts of the mesh including what is commonly referred to as the arms/anchors

Yours faithfully

Jackie Harvey

Turner, Clark, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Ms Harvey

 

Please find acknowledgement of your FOI request

 

Many thanks

 

Clark

 

 

Clark Turner

Communications Officer

Public Liaison Service

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

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Turner, Clark, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (Northern Ireland)

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Dear Ms Harvey

 

Please find attached a response to your FOI.

 

Many thanks

 

Clark

 

 

Clark Turner

Communications Officer

Public Liaison Service

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

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T: 028 9504 4919

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Dear Turner, Clark,

Thank you for the response. I am wondering if it was written by a politician as the whole response is a non answer

Yours sincerely,

Jackie Harvey