Woman who suffered complications from vaginal mesh implant awarded at least £1m

Exclusive: Yvette Greenway-Mansfield given compensation after Coventry's University Hospital was found to be medically negligent

A woman who suffered traumatic complications from a vaginal mesh implant has been awarded a record settlement of at least 1m from the NHS.

Yvette Greenway-Mansfield, 59, was given a mesh implant at Coventry's University Hospital in 2009 and went on to suffer serious complications. Her medical negligence claim against the hospital trust found that the surgery was carried out prematurely and unnecessarily and that her consent form had been doctored to include additional risks after Greenway-Mansfield had signed it.