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.
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. Because more mesh victims answered the survey, this amounts to an average of £25,000, for an estimated 20,000 claimants, adding up to half a billion pounds. However, there would then be a secondary payout based on assessments of future needs. Dr Hughes told Sky News: 'The need for redress is now. I want the government to get on with it, to set up a scheme for patients and start making payments in 202
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