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Content ArticleMore and more women are coming forward to share their stories of a painful IUD procedure. In this blog for the BMJ Opinion, Stephanie O’Donohue (Content and Engagement Manager for Patient Safety Learning) argues that healthcare services need to get better at recording these experiences. The ripples of trauma caused by severe pain during IUD procedures If you have had an IUD fitted and would like to share your experience, please visit our community forum and share your views. Related reading The pain of my IUD fitting was horrific…and I’m not alone The normalisation of women’s pain Through the hysteroscope: Reflections of a gynaecologist Improving hysteroscopy safety (Patient Safety Learning, November 2020)
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Content ArticleJacqui Shaw, 54, underwent surgery for pelvic organ prolapse during which surgical mesh was inserted. She assumed the operation would improve her quality of life. Instead, her days are now blighted by agonising pain and despair. In this video, published on the Mail+, Jacqui bravely shares her story, and her uncertainty for the future. She describes how she found the support group Sling the Mesh, and subsequently many others who were also experiencing devastating consequences of surgical mesh.
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Content ArticleThe MASIC Foundation is the only multi-disciplinary UK charity to support women who have suffered severe maternal perineal trauma during childbirth known as OASI (Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury). They carried out an online survey in January 2021, exploring the impact of severe maternal perineal trauma on the physical and mental health of the women who sustained the injuries and on their relationship with their child. This report outlines the results and calls for several actions to improve care.
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Women's Hour: Baroness Cumberlege (12 July 2021)
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Baroness Julia Cumberlege, produced the First Do No Harm report that looked into two drugs and a medical device which caused women or their babies harm. In this episode of Women's Hour, she joins host Emma Barnett to talk about her anger and frustration at the lack of progress made since the report was published a year ago. The report made a list of nine recommendations to support victims and prevent future, avoidable damage. Eight of these have seen no action. Listen from 31:20- Posted
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Content ArticleThis article discusses endometriosis and how the common treatment of performing laparoscopic surgery to remove damaged tissue may not be as effective as once thought. Lucia Osborne-Crowley writes about how experts have found that women who have the surgery don't always get better and if they do, it only lasts a short while. The article also describes what endometriosis is and how it is important not to continue encouraging women to undergo repeat surgeries as it may not improve the condition.
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Royal College of Midwives Podcasts
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A new series of podcasts by the Royal College of Midwives (RCN). Each month for 2021, there will be podcasts by the RCN that will focus on new developments and work being done by the College with it's midwife and and maternity support worker members.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis is the transcript of a backbench debate in the House of Commons regarding the implementation of the recommendations of First Do No Harm report, published by the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review on the 8 July 2020, chaired by Baroness Cumberlege (also known as the Cumberlege Review).
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Caitlin Moran: ‘Coil fitting left me traumatised’
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BBC Radio 5 live - In Short: Speaking to Naga Munchetty, Caitlin Moran describes her experience of having an IUD fitted that left her with long-lasting mental and physical complications. -
Content ArticleLucy Cohen recently had a contraceptive device (IUD) fitted, during which she suffered extremely high levels of pain. Following her experience, she decided to launch a survey to understand how others had found the procedure. In this interview, Lucy shares her findings and calls for better pain management and improved consent processes, in order to reduce avoidable harm.
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Valproate Safety Implementation Group
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The Valporate Safety Implementation Group (VSIG) is a clinically-led group set up to help facilitate the reduction of the use of sodium valporate in women and girls where there is a safer alternative.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn 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)
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Content ArticleSodium Valproate is a treatment for epilepsy and bipolar disorder. It can cause an increased risk of developmental, physical and neurological harms to the human embryo or fetus. This NHS letter is a reminder of information that every woman and girl of childbearing age should receive from their doctors when the drug is first prescribed. It contains important reminders of safety considerations, including around contraception, pregnancy and regular prescribing reviews. Further recommended reading: Sodium Valproate: The Fetal Valproate Syndrome Tragedy Analysing the Cumberlege Review: Who should join the dots for patient safety? (Patient Safety Learning) Findings of the Cumberlege Review: informed consent (Patient Safety Learning) First Do No Harm. The report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review Regulatory flaws: Women were catastrophically failed in the mesh, Primodos and Sodium Valproate tragedies (Kath Sansom)
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Content Article"In Unwell Women Elinor Cleghorn unpacks the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification and misdiagnosis of women's bodies, and traces the journey from the 'wandering womb' of ancient Greece, the rise of witch trials in Medieval Europe, through the dawn of Hysteria, to modern day understandings of autoimmune diseases, the menopause and conditions like endometriosis. Packed with character studies of women who have suffered, challenged and rewritten medical orthodoxy - and drawing on her own experience of un-diagnosed Lupus disease - this is a ground-breaking and timely exposé of the medical world and woman's place within it." Follow the link below to more information on the Amazon website.
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Content ArticleThis is Patient Safety Learning’s submission to the Women’s Health Strategy: Call for evidence. In seeking to inform the development of its Women’s Health Strategy, the UK Government has requested written submissions of data, research, and other reports of relevance. In its response, Patient Safety Learning outlines the risk to patient safety of sex and gender bias. The consultation is now closed.
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Sodium Valproate: The Fetal Valproate Syndrome Tragedy
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In this article, Sodium Valproate: The Fetal Valproate Syndrome Tragedy, Sharon Hartles, member of the Open University’s Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative, reflects upon the use of Sodium Valporate, marketed as Epilim, to treat patients at risk of epilepsy and the subsequent harms in fetal development and birth defects that arose from its use.- Posted
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MASIC: Find support after a birth injury
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MASIC is the only charity in the UK dedicated to supporting women who have sustained serious childbirth injuries. It is run by a team of MASIC advocates who have experienced injury themselves and are led by a small Executive team and Board of Trustees who have all either worked with or represented women who have suffered an obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI) injury and who are dedicated to treatment and prevention of these injuries. The link below will take you to a section of their website designed to help guide people looking for support after a birth injury, including: Support from your GP Helpline support NHS support Private support Mental health support Legal support Work and employment Psychological support. -
Content ArticleWyndaele et al. evaluated the trends in female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) surgery in a UK tertiary referral centre during five years before the July 2018 tape suspension and to compare it with NHS England data. They found that when all invasive treatment options are transparently presented to female patients with SUI, they prefer other surgical treatments as an alternative to mid-urethral sling.
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Content ArticleThis Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) investigation looked at the risks involved in the correct identification of patients in outpatient departments. Correct identification is crucial to make sure they receive the right clinical procedure. In the last 10 years the number of patients treated in outpatient clinics has nearly doubled. Many minor surgical procedures can now be carried out in an outpatient clinic, whereas in the past they would have been carried out in an inpatient theatre setting. The high number of patients treated in an outpatient clinic requires efficient management. Clinical consultation and delivery of the required intervention often needs to be completed within a 15-20-minute appointment. In a single outpatient waiting area there may be patients arriving for different clinical interventions. Staff need to make sure that all patients are seen in the right place, at the right time and (if required) receive the right procedure. Outpatients are not provided with any physical means that staff can use to identify them. This is different to inpatients where a wristband is worn following an initial check of the patient’s identity. Checking the identity of a patient in an outpatient department typically relies on staff speaking to patients. There is a risk of patients being missed or misunderstood due to the environment, work demands, language or cultural barriers.
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Content ArticleMesh-related complications resulting from pelvic organ prolapse (POP) reconstruction operations may be a devastating experience leading to multiple and complex interventions. The aim of the study from Paulo Rodrigues and Shlomo Raz was to describe the experience and time frame of management of mesh-related complications in women treated for POP or stress urinary incontinence in a tertiary centre.
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Content ArticleIn this article for The Independent, Hannah Fearn looks at the issues women face when seeking treatment for urinary tract infections (UTIs). New research from Garmin has found that 40% of young women say they have been accused of over-exaggerating symptoms or being “over dramatic” about their wellbeing when seeing a doctor. The author highlights several personal stories of women who have experienced debilitating recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs), describing dismissive and discriminatory treatment from both GPs and secondary care doctors. She also looks at the work of the UK's only dedicated research centre focused on recurrent UTIs for women, based at London’s Whittington Hospital, and highlights new treatments that are becoming available for women with recurrent UTIs.
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Cervical cancer symptoms (Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust)
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Cervical cancer symptoms include vaginal bleeding that is unusual for you, changes to vaginal discharge, discomfort during sex and pain in your lower back or pelvis. If you have symptoms, you should contact your GP. -
Content ArticleThis article in The Lancet Haematology examines the impact of having different anaemia thresholds for men and for women at different life stages. It challenges the data that current medical assumptions are based on, arguing that they have been extrapolated from healthy, predominantly white populations that are not representative of real-world populations. The authors look at the arguments that has been used to determine sex-based differences in haemoglobin concentrations, and argue that there is limited evidence to justify having different anaemia thresholds for men and women. They suggest that removing sex-specific reference ranges for haemoglobin and ferritin may improve the health of women and their offspring.
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Content ArticleIn this blog for the website Cysters, Kiran Chalke and Hayle Davis share their experiences of accessing gynaecology and reproductive services as a lesbian couple. They describe the barriers they have faced to accessing IVF and highlight disparities in the treatment of heterosexual and same-sex couples on the NHS. They also discuss the impact that bias in the system and from individual healthcare workers has had on both of their experiences of gynaecology treatment. The attitudes of staff and failure to read their notes fully has resulted in the couple feeling uncomfortable in healthcare settings and in treatment delays that have had a real impact on their quality of life.
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