Women's Health Special - Nadine Dorries, Unwell Women, Mesh removal centres, Autoimmunity (R4 Women's Hour, 9 June 2021)

Summary

In this episode of Radio 4's Women's Hour, presenter Emma Barnett discusses the health inequalities impacting on women in relation to medical understanding, funding and research. 

Guests include:

• Women's Health Minister, Nadine Dorries
• Dr Elinor Cleghorn, cultural historian and author of 'Unwell Women - A journey through medicine and myth in a man-made world'
• Listener Judi who suffers from pelvic mesh complications
• Prof Hashim Hashim, a urological surgeon with specialist skill in mesh removal.

Listen to the full episode here (you'll need a BBC Sounds account)

Further reading

• Regulatory flaws: Women were catastrophically failed in the mesh, Primodos and Sodium Valproate tragediesDangerous exclusions: The risk to patient safety of sex and gender bias (Patient Safety Learning)
• Gender bias: A threat to women’s health (Sarah Graham)
• The normalisation of women’s pain (Lisa Rampersad)
• ‘Women are being dismissed, disbelieved and shut out’ (Stephanie O’Donohue)
•  Women’s Health Strategy: Call for evidence (Department of Health and Social Care)
• Improving hysteroscopy safety (Patient Safety Learning, November 2020)