Ms Mary McLaughlin:

I will give another reason the mesh pathways do not have a large uptake. Women who have been treated for ten or 20 years and have had urodynamics and vaginal examinations that are very painful - all these options - are now finding that these new mesh pathways have been created but with the same doctors and the same soft diagnostics. Many of them are saying that they are not travelling to have urodynamics and internal examinations and to have this humiliating process repeated. The informed consent is nearly coerced in respect of not doing the pathway but saying that you have had all this stuff done and you just want it out. You are being forced into all these tests and translabial scans and it is delay after delay. It can take years to get an appointment. Women wait for an appointment, go to the hospital and find out it is not even the consultant. They have a junior doctor who does not know anything about mesh. The women are in tears in the car parks after coming out.