Pelvic mesh implant removal help

When things have gone wrong, pelvic mesh implant removal may be the only option that’s left for patients to prevent any further suffering or reduce problems occurring.

But it isn’t always easy to get the help that you need. With NHS waiting times and resources for vaginal mesh complications sometimes limited, where do you turn when you need help sooner rather than later?

There are options for private surgery and treatment. It isn’t always guaranteed to work, and in some cases there’s nothing that can be done; but if something can be done, this is something you can explore. When it comes to the costs, a claim for compensation can be the way forward.

Getting help with pelvic mesh implant removal

It can be possible to access help like surgery and treatment for pelvic mesh implant removal as part of a claim for personal injury compensation.

When you make a claim, the case is formed from two parts. One part is known as General Damages which is for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity caused. The second part is for Special Damages, and it’s this part that accounts for losses and expenses. This can include the costs of treatment.

If the treatment is going to speed up or aid your recovery, we may be able to justify including the costs for it as part of a case. There’s a duty on the Defendant (the company or surgeon you’re suing) to help to mitigate your losses, which means to keep the losses to a minimum. As such, if surgery or treatment will reduce the impact of your suffering, it should be explored. If the only option for better and faster surgery and treatment is by going private, we can look to get this included as part of a case.

How we can include the costs

There are a few ways that we may be able to include the costs for private surgery for pelvic mesh implant removal as well as for treatment in a claim.

The common ways are:

• Asking for an interim payment from the opponent, which is a part payment before the case settles that can cover things like costs and expenses for treatment;
• Settle the case and make sure to include the costs based on evidence of estimates you can obtain and rely on;
• You pay for the treatment and then look to claim back incurred expenses as part of a case.

To support including this as part of a case, we can ask an independent medical expert to confirm in their report that such a course of treatment ,or surgical procedure, will help. We usually obtain reports to value your case anyway, and we can ask the expert to factor in key answers to questions like this.

Will you be able to access private options?

We know that the problems and complications for patients can mean that there’s a real need to  go through the pelvic mesh implant removal procedure. It may be the only way to help you, and that’s what we want: to help you.

We cannot guarantee what will happen in a case. Normally, we will need to establish an admission of liability from the opponent to be able to claim for these kinds of costs. This isn’t an easy thing to do in every case, and we may have a legal battle on our hands to try and get some kind of agreement in place for you to be compensated.

What we can do is represent you on a No Win, No Fee basis for a case. This means that you have at least some piece of mind when it comes to pursuing the compensation that you may be entitled to, even if the case doesn’t succeed.

For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact our team for a free, no-obligation claims assessment today.