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Settlements for incorrect incontinence surgery

A Liverpool hospital has offered settlements to hundreds of women whose incontinence problems were made worse by a surgeon. Reports show that the NHS Trust has admitted liability in a number of cases related to the work of a surgeon, who allegedly performed incorrect operations on many patients for around a decade up to 2007. It is believed some women who were suffering minor symptoms of incontinence before seeing the surgeon were left with serious medical problems following treatment by him.

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