[arista]

This was debated Live
on Ch5HD 1st show
during their Papers and Online Review.


[The government is being told to
urgently set up a financial package
to help patients damaged by
epilepsy drug valproate and vaginal mesh.

Calculations for the cost of the
package amount to half a
billion pounds - just for the initial payments,
according to a report by the
Patient Safety Commissioner for England,
Dr Henrietta Hughes.

Previously, the government rejected
calls for such a scheme,
but Dr Hughes's report says that
position "is unsustainable" and
"is causing immense anxiety
for harmed patients".
Based on the needs identified by
patients in a survey,
valproate victims would need an
initial payment of £100,000 per patient,
and vaginal mesh
victims would need £20,000.]

https://news.sky.com/story/victims-o...-told-13065504