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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To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Chief Medical Officer said in December 2016 that there was no other alternative treatments for stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse other than mesh when, prior to mesh being developed from the late 1990s, it is understood that non-mesh treatments were the most common form of treatment.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06201 by Aileen Campbell on 7 March 2017, what account it took of the comments by the Chief Executive of the Scottish Drugs Forum regarding the £15.3 million reduction in the drug and alcohol budget for 2016-17 in its news release, Concern over budgets for local Alcohol and Drugs Partnerships in 2016-17, when setting the budget allocation for 2017-18.
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.
To ask the Scottish Government how many pending legal cases there are that involve the use of medical mesh devices to treat hernias.
To ask the Scottish Government whether informed consent is always required from patients being treated for hernias with medical mesh devices.
To ask the Scottish Government on what dates it has met the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency since the interim report from the Independent Review of Transvaginal Mesh Implants was published in October 2015.
To ask the Scottish Government what alternative, non-mesh treatments are available to patients being treated for hernias.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will recommend making it mandatory to (a) use a medical mesh device registry and (b) report adverse events involving medical mesh devices and, if not, what other methods it will use to record the number and extent of adverse incidents involving these devices.
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.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Medicines and Health Care products Regulatory Agency expressed an opinion on the Interim report of the Independent Review of Transvaginal Mesh implants, which was published in October 2015.