Thousands of women butchered by mesh and families of children left disabled by epilepsy drugs should be given pay-outs in the region of £25,000 each, ministers were told today.
In a landmark compensation scheme which could be worth £600m, patient safety watchdogs ruled there is a ‘clear case for redress’ for victims of both scandals.
At least 10,000 women are estimated to have been harmed by vaginal mesh, with some left in agony and wheelchair-bound because of the ‘quick fix’
The Government is promoting an NHS advice page on vaginal cancer which doesn’t use the word ‘women’ — despite promising to crackdown on the woke de-sexing of medical language.
The Department of Health and Social Care’s Twitter account yesterday promoted the page, which was quietly made gender-neutral last year.
In November 2021, the page had a line that stated: ‘Vaginal cancer is rare, especially in women under 40.’
But now the overview section of this page omits this information entirely,
