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    Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

    Ironically over-generalising is one of the basic 'cognitive errors' addressed by CBT.
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    Janet Dafoe - The Whitney Plea

    There should be clarity about what a signatory is endorsing before, not after, petition delivery. I would add that I'm not at all clear that including a clip of Francis Collins singing and playing guitar during Jen Brea's voice over "..and every day that you do nothing, I am losing my life.."...
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    Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management

    https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BPS Blackheath Poetry Society? Or Big Picture Scrapbooking?
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    Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management

    Gerada recently used the same phrasing 'name blame, and shame' when calling out a medical student on Twitter for publicly complaining about a confidentiality breach at the student's surgery, her complaint to the surgery of which had not been taken seriously. The student had not named any...
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    Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management

    I don't arrive at this. But it is clear she is not dispassionate.
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    Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management

    @Trish - as you have seen this, could I trouble you to make this change?
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    Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management

    Yes, I perhaps should have modified the wording from the article for the header from 'named in' to 'appointed to'. Clare Gerada has Tweeted recently in relation to patient complaints:
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    Clare Gerada: influence on UK medical practice and ME/CFS management

    Former RCGP chair named in GMC manslaughter review panel By Nick Bostock on the 21 May 2018 "Former RCGP chair Professor Clare Gerada has been named in an expert panel set up by the GMC to review gross negligence manslaughter (GNM) in healthcare following the Bawa-Garba case. "Terms of...
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    Merryn Crofts - media and inquest

    Links to further reporting: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6336317/merryn-crofts-myalgic-encephalomyelitis-death-actress/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5748563/Drama-student-21-killed-rules-coroner-say-condition-mind.html The Daily Mail has run an article in its print edition today...
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    ME Association: ‘ME Awareness Week 2018’ New Early Day Motion Launched by Carol Monaghan MP

    For better or worse, I've written. Despite misgivings about the 250,000 and 25% figures, I've used these for concreteness. If anyone wants to use this or improve on it for contacting your own MP, be my guest. "I am writing to ask whether you would please sign EDM 1247, in support of ME...
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    Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) - The Need for Radical Reform, 2018, Scott

    Professor Ken Laidlaw (UEA) discussing the aims of the IAPT programme with Kevin Jarman, IAPT Programme Manager 2008-15 and Work and Health Joint Unit DWP/DH Lead: Kevin Jarman: '...we moved very quickly into roll out. In fact, to be honest, the evaluation of IAPT at those Newham and Doncaster...
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    Wesselys Mental Health review could also replace Mental Capacity Act

    The Independent review of the Mental Health Act: interim report was published on gov.uk yesterday: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-mental-health-act-interim-report
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    A general thread on the PACE trial!

    Thanks very much for doing this, @Lucibee
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    UK: IAPT-Employment Adviser pilots - some information & docs

    So the cost benefit analysis is only looking at the potential reduction in consumption of NHS services in cost terms that would be achieved by keeping one individual in employment for a year, and how many individuals must be retained in employment to meet the costs of a single employment adviser...
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    UK: IAPT-Employment Adviser pilots - some information & docs

    Building a business case for employment advice and support This document is available on the UEA website, but is unattributed and undated (it predates Spring 2011). PCTs were abolished on 31 March 2013 under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, 'replaced' by clinically led CCGs. EAs in IAPT are...
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    UK: IAPT-Employment Adviser pilots - some information & docs

    If the question is: what organisations are providers of employment support in the IAPT pilots? I'm not aware of an exhaustive list of providers for wave one (or proposed providers of wave two) sites. According to the document 'Evaluation of Employment Advisers in the Improving Access to...
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    Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

    I agree, there is likely to have been some discussion. That said, language employed by RH is, in places, grossly incautious. It may be possible to envisage MS or PDW cringing: "Richard Horton: Yeah, I mean adaptive pacing therapy essentially believes that chronic fatigue is an organic disease...
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    Michael Sharpe skewered by @JohntheJack on Twitter

    There was no interaction between MS and RH. From listening previously, I believe they were separate telephone interviews that were not conducted live.* *Edited for clarity.
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