Charlotte Korte
Medical devices to stay 'largely unregulated'
Patient safety advocates warn scrapping the new Therapeutic Products Act will leave thousands of New Zealanders exposed to harm from dodgy medical devices.
The Act, which has yet to come into force… Audio
National mesh register "too expensive": campaigners dismayed
Campaigners fighting against the use of surgical mesh say no one from the Government has spoken to them about an apparent back-track on its election promise to set up a mesh register. This week the… Audio
Mesh-related claims costs ACC $13m
ACC has paid out more than $13 million for surgical mesh-related claims in the past 12 years, data released today has revealed. Audio
Mesh campaigners take fight to Australia
Charlotte Korte and Patricia Sullivan from the group, Mesh Down Under, which supports people with complications from the use of surgical mesh, will appear before an Australian Senate inquiry this… Audio
'Nothing has been achieved' - anti-mesh campaigners
Three years after parliament's health select committee began inquiring into the use of surgical mesh, and a year since it made seven recommendations, anti-mesh campaigners say nothing has changed. In… Audio
Govt responds on surgical mesh
Recommendations on surgical mesh have been accepted by the Government, but there's still no guarantee its use - which can cause devastating health problems - will be monitored. The Minister of Health… Audio
Surgical mesh campaigner
Two women who've campaigned for years after suffering serious complications from surgical mesh implants have won a partial victory -with parliament's health select committee recomending a national… Audio
Calls for an inquiry into the use of surgical mesh
The Health Select Committee is considering a petition calling for a full independent inquiry into the use of surgical mesh in New Zealand. With Charlotte Korte and Carmel Berry - the two women behind… Audio