The surgeons: We should have listened much sooner
The organisation representing surgeons carrying out mesh procedures made no immediate response to the Cumberlege Report after it was published on Wednesday.
However, three days later, after being approached by the Sunday Post, Edward Morris, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, apologised.
He said the report “highlights the harrowing stories of women to whom we should have listened to sooner,” adding: “For this I apologise on behalf of the RCOG and personally. RCOG has a long and valued history of listening to women’s voices, so to those whose stories have not been heeded, we could and should have done better.
“I am grateful to the women who have had the courage to come forward and share their most painful and distressing accounts.”
The president pledged that RCOG will act on the detailed recommendations of the report.