Ms Mary McLaughlin:

My experience from talking to the women in my group from the South is that nobody has been offered full removal of the mesh. Those people who have already had partial removal, which might involve just a very small portion of the mesh, find that surgeons are reluctant not only to do anything more with the mesh but also to do any surgery at all. There is an added problem in that when women get older, their organs start to prolapse. At that point, because of the contentiousness of the surgery, new surgeons do not want to operate on them until they have had the mesh issue resolved. Many women have had extreme prolapse and have been directed to non-surgical options.