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Women should always be offered pain relief when the contraceptive coil is fitted, a minister suggested yesterday.
Nadine Dorries said 'no woman should suffer' from such procedures – and that she was 'appalled' to hear reports of women in agony.
The patient safety minister told the health and social care committee she wanted to reverse the 'assumption that pain should be part of a woman's existence' and said past health scandals show that women's voices are ignored.
The level of pain relief offered for coil fittings varies at NHS clinics. Many advise taking painkillers before fittings.
The minister's comments came after the BBC's Naga Munchetty described on her Radio 5 Live show on Monday how she screamed and fainted twice when she had a coil fitted without anaesthetic.
Guidelines from the Royal College of Obstetricians and
