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There is, after all, only 3 letters difference between the words 'these' and 'their'...

Wasn't sure where to put this information, but today I discovered that Clare Gerada is one of the two co-chairs of the NHS Assembly. https://www.longtermplan.nhs.uk/nhs-assembly/chairs/ Members of the Assembly are expected to follow the '7 principles of public office' (I presume this applies...

That's true, but I was particularly thinking about an updated and accurate article aimed at GPs for this site, as patients can point them to it because this is a site that is specifically designed to help give patients background information to improve the patient-GP consultations and to help...

However, they still write (bolding mine):

I thought this information was worth posting because the new ME/CFS Nice guidelines are due to be published next month. Therefore this may present a good opportunity for appropriate people to submit an updated article to this site. Maybe one that is more accurate in describing the full range of...

There is also this article, which mentions ME/CFS and Long Covid: https://patient.info/news-and-features/what-you-need-to-know-about-post-viral-fatigue

I was browsing through the patient information links on the Patient Access app [https://account.patientaccess.com/] that my GP practice offers registered patients for ordering their repeat prescriptions, providing access to their basic medical records, vaccination history etc. The following...

I was referring to how Paul Garner talked about his response to eating cake (highly refined carbohydrate) as a 'crash'. Lots of people without ME/CFS experience this, it is not something that is particularly linked to ME/CFS or post-viral syndromes (including Long Covid). Apparently he was...

He was frightened he was allergic after feeling ill the day after eating cake, that's a reaction to a single incidence, not noticing a PEM pattern that has changed since he had Covid and coming to a measured conclusion. There is also the issue of age and other factors here, lots of people...

But he's saying this in the context of having Long Covid/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms, not as the physiological issue of having too much refined sugar in one's diet over a period of time. I also notice having symptoms if I've eaten too much refined carbohydrates over a few days. I never...

I'm not a doctor, but if I was noticing a link to sugar consumption and feeling 'crashed' my first thought would be potential diabetes...

I understand this, I was in that situation as a parent with two young children for many years.

Of course, this is an issue that requires much more than a single parliamentary bill to solve. It requires wholescale social change, suitable housing and a functional social care system. Beyond that there are the personal and emotional issues too.

I made the post to highlight the amendments to the bill will include paid carers, unpaid carers and neighbours. This will mean that abuse from a paid carer would become a well defined criminal offence, which may deter 'casual abuse' from those who think their behaviour is acceptable.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peer-secures-victory-over-government-on-domestic-abuse-bill/

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/womens-health-strategy-call-for-evidence

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-launches-call-for-evidence-to-improve-health-and-wellbeing-of-women-in-england

Especially important as you need to go into hospital for surgery and are clinically extremely vulnerable!

According to this document, they should have vaccinated all housebound patients in groups 1-6 by 14th March: https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/publication/covid-19-vaccination-deployment-next-steps-and-plans-for-weeks-of-8-and-15-march/

Surely if the professionals had taken the correct approach to individual patients who engaged in verbal abuse, by responding in a manner that de-escalates and diffuses potential conflict (as their medical training should have taught them to do), then patients such as the one in this twitter...