The government has appointed an MP who has campaigned on patient safety to be the new public health and prevention minister.
MP Sharon Hodgson will replace Ashley Dalton, who has metastatic breast cancer and yesterday announced she is stepping down. Ms Dalton will continue as MP for West Lancashire.
The new minister has campaigned for compensation for women injured by pelvic mesh, telling MPs that her mother was one of those who experienced “life-limiting complications” as a result of the implants.
She chairs a cross-party group of MPs set up to raise awareness of the 2020 Cumberlege review, which called for the appointment of a patient safety commissioner and an overhaul of existing arrangements for redress.
Earlier this year, Ms Hodgson said it was “frankly insulting” that the government had not issued an official response to a 2024 report into the mesh scandal. Government has failed to decide on compensation for the victims.
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Source: HSJ, 3 March 2026
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