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The Government has rejected calls for an inquiry and a ban on surgical mesh implants across the UK.

The devices are offered to patients suffering from prolapses or who have had hernias, but they can twist and degrade causing pain and incontinence.

The chair of the Health Committee told MPs that some women weren't even aware the devices had been implanted.

Mandy Baker reports.

You can hear more from Today in Parliament at 1130pm on Radio 4.