Women's health

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1. Regulatory flaws: Women were catastrophically failed in the mesh, Primodos and Sodium Valproate tragedies

   • Medical device
   • Patient harmed
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Medical device
     • Patient harmed
     • Regulatory issue

   By Kath Sansom, 15 April

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   • 15 April

2. Hysterical Women: How the gender pain gap harms women’s health

   • Womens health
   • Health inequalities
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     • Womens health
     • Health inequalities
     • Pain

   By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 24 March

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   • 24 March

3. Mesh: Denial, half-truths and the harms (March 2021)

   • Medical device
   • Patient harmed
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     • Medical device
     • Patient harmed
     • Pain
     • Investigation

   By Patient Safety Learning, 23 March

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   • 23 March

4. Endometriosis: one woman’s story

   • Endometriosis
   • Pain
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Endometriosis
     • Pain
     • Diagnosis

   By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 22 March

   • 0 comments
   • 98 views
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   • 22 March

5. Endometriosis should be considered a priority health issue (12 March 2021)

   • Endometriosis
   • Womens health

   By Sam, 15 March

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   • 27 views
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   • 15 March

6. Pain during ambulatory hysteroscopy: A presentation by Richard Harrison (2021)

   • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
   • Pain
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
     • Pain
     • Womens health
     • Staff engagement

   By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 12 March

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   • 195 views
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   • 12 March

7. Women's Health Strategy: Call for evidence (consultation closes at 11:45pm on 30 May 2021)

   • Womens health
   • Quality improvement

   By Patient Safety Learning, 11 March

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   • 146 views
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   • 11 March

8. Campaign Against Painful Hysteroscopy: Presentation to the BSGE (March 2021)

   • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
   • Womens health
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
     • Womens health
     • Pain
     • Consent

   By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 10 March

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   • 230 views
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   • 10 March

9. Presenting my work on pain during hysteroscopy to RCOG

   • Womens health
   • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
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     • Womens health
     • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
     • Research
     • Staff engagement
     • Pain

   By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 9 March

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   • 9 March

10. Dangerous exclusions: The risk to patient safety of sex and gender bias (Patient Safety Learning, March 2021)

    • Unconscious bias
    • Health inequalities
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Unconscious bias
      • Health inequalities
      • User centred design
      • Data
      • Womens health
      • Medical device
      • Patient engagement

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 8 March

    • 0 comments
    • 1,117 views
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    • 8 March

11. Endometriosis UK factsheet: Getting a diagnosis

    • Womens health
    • Diagnosis
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Womens health
      • Diagnosis
      • Patient
      • GP
      • Endometriosis

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 March

    • 0 comments
    • 127 views
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    • 4 March

12. Getting diagnosed with endometriosis: personal stories

    • Endometriosis
    • Diagnosis
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Endometriosis
      • Diagnosis
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Pain
      • Womens health

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 March

    • 0 comments
    • 101 views
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    • 4 March

13. Transvaginal Mesh Case Record Review

    • Womens health
    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Womens health
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Patient harmed

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 15 February

    • 0 comments
    • 132 views
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    • 15 February

14. Ministers respond to patients’ concerns about painful hysteroscopies: Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (February 2021)

    • Womens health
    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
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      • Womens health
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Pain
      • Consent

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 15 February

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    • 238 views
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    • 15 February

15. Menopause Management knowledge in postgraduate family medicine, internal medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology residents: A cross-sectional survey (1 February 2019)

    • Womens health
    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity

    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 February

    • 0 comments
    • 18 views
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    • 12 February

16. Endometriosis UK: Pain and symptoms diary for patients

    • Endometriosis
    • Womens health
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Endometriosis
      • Womens health
      • Appointment
      • GP
      • Patient

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 February

    • 0 comments
    • 70 views
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    • 4 February

17. Endometriosis: Laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis

    • Womens health
    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Womens health
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Surgery - General
      • Endometriosis

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 February

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    • 47 views
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    • 3 February

18. RCOG: Endometriosis patient information leaflet (June 2018)

    • Womens health
    • Patient
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Womens health
      • Patient
      • Endometriosis

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 February

    • 0 comments
    • 69 views
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    • 3 February

19. APPG for First Do No Harm – meeting with Minister for Patient Safety (26 January 2021)

    • Womens health
    • Medical device
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      • Womens health
      • Medical device
      • Patient harmed

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 27 January

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    • 236 views
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    • 27 January

20. Through the hysteroscope: Reflections of a gynaecologist

    • Womens health
    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
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      • Womens health
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Pain
      • Consent
      • Treatment

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 26 January

    • 7 comments
    • 1,765 views
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    • Comment by Carrie
    • 5 April

21. Minister acknowledges patients’ concerns about painful hysteroscopies; but will action be taken? (January 2021)

    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
    • Patient harmed
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Patient harmed
      • Pain
      • Consent

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 20 January

    • 0 comments
    • 412 views
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    • 20 January

22. Update on the government’s response to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (Cumberlege) Review: 11 January 2021

    • Womens health
    • Patient harmed
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      • Womens health
      • Patient harmed
      • Epilepsy
      • Pregnancy
      • Medical device

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 11 January

    • 0 comments
    • 294 views
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    • 11 January

23. When more is not better: 10 ‘don’ts’ in endometriosis management (12 June 20219)

    • Womens health
    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Womens health
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Research
      • Sexual and reproductive health

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 January

    • 0 comments
    • 67 views
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    • 3 January

24. The normalisation of women’s pain

    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
    • Womens health
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Womens health
      • Pain

    By LiSaRa, 30 November, 2020

    • 4 comments
    • 3,130 views
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    • Comment by Helena
    • 2 December, 2020

25. ‘Making it up to get out of household chores’: the devastating aftermath of vaginal mesh (November 2018)

    • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
    • Womens health
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Womens health
      • Gaslighting
      • Patient harmed
      • Patient suffering

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 18 November, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 160 views
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    • 18 November, 2020