The government is being told to urgently set up a financial package to help patients damaged by the 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. Our home editor, Jason Farrell, spoke to some of the victims affected.
Victims of epilepsy drug and mesh should get compensation, ministers told
