The Scottish Government says women concerned about their mesh removal procedure will be offered the opportunity to discuss their case with independent clinicians.

Women have experienced debilitating complications of mesh implant surgery. Some patients who then underwent a procedure to have the mesh removed, later found that part of the implant had been left in.

The offer of time with an expert to review a report of their case notes is initially being made to women who joined a meeting with the First Minister in November last year.

The process to review individual cases is being devised alongside the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland.

The government says that, if the scheme is evaluated to be effective, the offer of a similar review will be considered for a wider group of women affected.

Health secretary Jeane Freeman says ministers are determined that every woman affected by transvaginal mesh problems gets the individual treatment and the care that she needs:

“The case note review will hopefully give these women the answers they require about their situation and follows on from our commitment to a Complex Care Review Service and a £1 million Mesh Injured Women’s Fund to support those affected.”

Meanwhile the government says discussions are continuing to bring the US mesh expert, Missouri-based obstetrician-gynaecologist Dr Dionysios K. Veronikis, to Scotland.