Meet the women campaigning to #Raise the Limit (6 December 2023)

Summary

Thousands of women have joined forces to try to extend the time limit on legal claims against pharmaceutical companies. The campaign has been spearheaded by Pogust Goodhead’s Client Liaison Officer Jan Faulkner and other women who have been affected by faulty medical devices. The movement calls for the UK government to #RaiseTheLimit.

Every day, medical professionals fit millions of patients around the world with medical product devices. But in the UK, patients only have ten years to make a claim against the manufacturer if something goes wrong.

For many women fitted with sterilisation device Essure, that is simply not long enough. Symptoms related to the device can take years to manifest – and even longer for their connection to the device to be recognised and for the device to be removed.