Woman is awarded {pound}1m after consent form for vaginal mesh surgery was altered

A woman who suffered serious injury from vaginal mesh implanted without her informed consent has won a record settlement of around £1m from an NHS trust.Yvette Greenway-Mansfield, 59, accepted the payment from University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, which offered its “sincerest apologies” for the effects of the procedure, carried out in 2009, on her life.Her lower abdominal discomfort and increased urinary frequency were attributed to a uterine prolapse and she was advised at Coventry University Hospital to have a vaginal hysterectomy with the insertion of a transvaginal tape (TVT) mesh implant. Six years later, after experiencing pain and bleeding, she was told that the mesh might have started to erode into the vaginal wall.The mesh was removed at a private hospital in 2020 but she was left with urinary and faecal incontinence and chronic pain. Greenway-Mansfield, who is married to the barrister Michael Mansfield KC, had kept her…
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