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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S5W-07747

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government whether there is mandatory reporting of adverse incidents that are a result of using medical mesh devices to treat hernias.

Question reference: S5W-07736

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings of the Independent Review of Transvaginal Mesh Implants have taken place since its interim report was published in October 2015.

Question reference: S5W-07731

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government whether the report of the Independent Review of Transvaginal Mesh Implants will publish all of the evidence and findings regarding patient choice in a manner that will be understandable to non-experts.

I understand that attempts have been made to make the Review’s final report as accessible as possible. However, as with any report of this kind, it will contain necessarily detailed, in-depth analysis of medical evidence that is, by its very nature, complex. An Expert Group is tasked with taking forward the recommendations of the Review. In response to previous recommendations it produced a patient-centred information and consent leaflet, and it will be expected to continue to take a patient-friendly approach in relation to the Review’s final recommendations.

Question reference: S5W-07726

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) transobturator mesh tape and (b) prolapse mesh procedures have been carried out by each NHS board in each month since June 2014.

The number of transobturator mesh tape and prolapse mesh procedures carried out by the NHS between June 2014 to Sep 2016 are set out in the following tables. The numbers of procedures carried out by each Health Board are not broken down by month due to the small numbers of patients involved.

NHS Scotland Totals by Month

Total

Transobturator Tape

Total Transvaginal Mesh

Procedures for

Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP)

Total Transabdominal

Mesh Procedures for

Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP)

June 2014	26	0	6
July 2014	20	*	*
August 2014	8	0	13
September 2014	9	0	13
October 2014	10	*	14
November 2014	*	*	9
December 2014	*	*	9
January 2015	5	*	7
February 2015	6	*	9
March 2015	9	6	10
April 2015	5	*	9
May 2015	*	*	9
June 2015	8	0	11
July 2015	0	*	*
August 2015	*	0	15
September 2015	*	*	7
October 2015	0	*	17
November 2015	*	0	16
December 2015	*	0	11
January 2016	*	*	12
February 2016	*	*	15
March 2016	*	*	14
April 2016	*	*	20
May 2016	*	*	19
June 2016	*	*	15
July 2016	*	0	11
August 2016	*	*	12
September 2016	*	*	16
Total	148	38	327

Health Board Totals - June 2014 to September 2016

	Total Transobturator Tape	Total Transvaginal Mesh Procedures for Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP)	Total Transabdominal Mesh Procedures for Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP)
Golden Jubilee National Hospital	0	0	0
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	*	12	*
NHS Borders	28	*	*
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	63	*	0
NHS Fife	12	5	31
NHS Forth Valley	0	*	13
NHS Grampian	5	*	37
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	35	0	116
NHS Highland	0	0	*
NHS Lanarkshire	0	6	17
NHS Lothian	*	*	23
NHS Orkney	0	0	0
NHS Shetland	0	0	0
NHS Tayside	*	7	70
NHS Western Isles	0	0	*
Non-NHS Provider	0	*	7

Note: where a figure is not given, this is to protect patient confidentiality due to the small numbers involved.

Source: NHS National Services Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-07743

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many legal cases have been lodged in relation to non-mesh treatments for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-07742

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether, compared to standard non-mesh treatments, medical mesh devices increase the risk of complications that can have an irreversible and detrimental impact on the lives of people who experience them.

Question reference: S5W-07746

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how many adverse incidents there have been involving the use of medical mesh devices to treat hernias.

Question reference: S5W-07753

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what administrative, emotional and legal support it provides to lay members of the Independent Review of Transvaginal Mesh Implants group who have resigned.

The Independent Review’s secretariat has provided support to all members of the Review. This has included, amongst other things, the arranging meetings at convenient times and in appropriate accommodation, the arranging of teleconferencing facilities, the provision of hard copy papers, the refunding of travelling expenses, and other assistance upon request. Scottish Government officials are unable to provide legal advice.

Question reference: S5W-07721

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 16 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06893 by Maureen Watt on 24 February 2017, when the additional investment of £150 million on mental health services started to be paid to NHS boards, and what share of this funding was included in each NHS territorial board budget in that financial year.

Question reference: S5W-07722

Asked by: Neil Findlay, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 16 March 2017

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06893 by Maureeen Wattr on 24 February 2017, noting that this funding was listed in both the draft 2016-17 budget and the draft 2017-18 budget, whether the delivery of £150 million funding began in the financial year 2016-17 or will begin in 2017-18, and what the final financial year of the allocation of funds will be.