34771 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health

34771 (2025). Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall to the Associate Minister of Health: What official publications, if any, including reports, investigations, evaluations, or reviews, did the Ministry of Health produce, commission, or receive on the use of surgical mesh in New Zealand, prior to the publication of Healing after harm: An evaluation of a restorative approach for addressing harm from surgical mesh?

Hon Casey Costello: I am advised the key publications the Ministry of Health produced, commissioned, or received prior to the publication of Healing after harm were: • Health Committee Report on the Petition of Carmel Berry and Charlotte Korte. • 2018 Deloitte report titled Surgical Mesh Registry: Cost Benefit Analysis. • Hearing and Responding to the Stories of Survivors of Surgical Mesh.