Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan:

We have two groups, probably. We have patients who have an absolutely clarified mesh complication, such as, for example, where the mesh has eroded into the vagina or where it may have gone into the bladder or the bladder neck. That is a small cohort of patients with absolutely clear problems. We also have a huge cohort of patients who have other issues, for example, relating to recurrent urinary tract infections who also happen to have had a tape or a mesh in the past but those issues may or may not be directly related to their tape. Those patients have always been attending our services and it is only since we set up these services that we have a separate coding for patients with very direct, clear mesh-related complications. I suppose they are not hugely surprising because we have not done any operations in the last four years so we are dealing with women who had surgery prior to the implementation of the pause. While we know many procedures were done in the past, many of them were very successful and were not associated with complications.