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The sections of this dealing with the infiltration of the NHS by McKinsey should be compulsory reading, and then we can set about verification of the information. McKinsey & Company - Wikispooks EDIT this section from the linked article is instructive. Lobbying for tech McKinsey has long...

This one looks interesting McKinsey pockets £600k for seven-week review into NHS tech leadership (digitalhealth.net) EDIT Baroness Dido Harding, who began her career at McKinsey, has been appointed the interim executive chair of the new organisation. Small world isn't it?

I think that was said in the days of "don't be vague , vote for Hague". Once McKinsey, always a part of the McKinsey family | McKinsey & Company

It is beginning to look like deliberate provocation. All these studies seem to refer to "chronic fatigue" in the title and CFS in the body of the work. It is just about credible that people starting a PhD are unfamiliar with the significance - though it does not auger well if they are. One would...

That looks like poor drafting. Is that what illness perceptions "are", or is it the way in which they are defined for the purposes of the study? That looks to be one or two stages removed from the ways in which people are likely to interpret "illness perceptions". They are entitled to define...

Perhaps it is an example of what Austin call a "performative utterance".

The definition of PIFS in the editorial looks strange. The definition given in the Oxford Criteria, which they cite is: Post-infectious fatigue syndrome (PIFS) This is a subtype of CFS which either follows an infection or is associated with a current infection (although whether such...

For some inexplicable reason I become nervous when I see links to McKinsey in a CV. Once McKinsey always McKinsey.

I usually find things when looking for something else. Which I fail to find. I came across this in the Autumn 1989 MEA perspectives magazine,@p9. It is in the Research Round Up report by Stephanie Woodcock in a report on "Post viral fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis-areas of...

Let us, for the moment, suppose that this project might be safe in the hands of GL. Why should it be thought that it would be safe in the hands of an, as yet, unidentified successor?

"Surfacing" in what sense? Bringing to the surface and revealing, or concealing the cracks. And does a "point" have a surface? Or is that a different sort of point?

Why do they think that the 27.6% of CFS patients who, by their findings, do not suffer from generalised worry would benefit from CBT? Their figures seem to be broadly in line with those in the 1989 Wessely and Powell paper. The same same objections still apply, and have probably never been...

It seems like Goldberg without the variations. It could have been written in 1990. It probably was.

Is this part of the remit of the "Nudge Unit" or ""behavioural Insights team"?“Nudge Unit” | The Institute for Government

...but what remedies are available for failure to fulfil expectations?

No, it doesn't. Some people with an agenda might wish it to be seen as such. The word is often used of male behaviour. Is there any extrinsic evidence to support the interpretation that the use is sexist in this case. It all seems very istist.

As to funding, this is stated in the information in the original post This study has been organised by Stuart Airey as part of the doctorate in clinical psychology and is sponsored by the University of Edinburgh. The study has not required any additional funding.

I wondered what information they had to impart and whether they are better informed than we are. If they are , what is the source of the information.

This is probably she:Britta Berglund's research works | Ghent University, Gent (UGhent) and other places (researchgate.net)

So he thought the condition was characterised by "nosophobia", fear of disease. Or to put it another way, hypochondriasis.