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Role of the Surgical Mesh Roundtable
The Surgical Mesh Roundtable provides oversight, assurance and advice on progress against 19 actions resulting from the restorative justice process Hearing and Responding to the Stories of Survivors of Surgical Mesh.
Responsibility for implementing recommendations and actions from the work programme sits with operational and technical working groups, and other organisations as appropriate. These groups will engage subject matter experts and consumers to support delivery.
Membership
The Surgical Mesh Roundtable is chaired by the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health.
Two members will be nominated by each of the following stakeholder organisations and groups to participate in the Roundtable.
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)/Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ)/Aotearoa New Zealand Society of Urology (ANZSU)
- Nursing – in a field relevant to the work programme
- Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)
- Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC)
- Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC)
- New Zealand Private Surgical Hospitals Association (NZPSHA)
- Consumers, at least one of which has lived experience of the complications of pelvic mesh
- Health New Zealand (ex officio)
- Ministry of Health (ex-officio)
Individual membership from each of the groups listed above may change from time to time.
The Roundtable will convene for the period required for the Ministry and other stakeholders to complete the 19 actions in the restorative justice report, and until such time that appropriate systems are in place to deliver high-vigilance procedures (mesh and non-mesh) safely, equitably, and transparently in New Zealand.
