LOCAL women are being urged to research the potentially life-changing risks of an operation before signing up to a medical trial at Barnsley hospital.
The gynaecology trial was stopped in Scotland earlier this year amid safety concerns.
It was then moved to England this summer and surgeons are now recruiting women in 18 hospitals including Barnsley.
The UK’s clinical watchdog body, NICE, says the operation, which implants a mesh sling to shore up weakened pelvic floor muscles and cure incontinence often caused by childbirth, has serious complications.
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