employment

"The Commons Work and Pensions Committee is investigating the gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people and how the Department for Work and Pensions can better support disabled people in the labour market. This evidence session is expected to cover issues around...

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/oh-the-key-to-helping-employers-understand-and-support-less-well-known-conditions/

https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/who-are-we-without-our-jobs.html

Free full text: https://academic.oup.com/occmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/occmed/kqaa166/5929827 Impact of Q-fever fatigue syndrome on patients’ work status D F M Reukers, J A F van Loenhout, I Roof, T F Senden, S P Keijmel, C P Bleeker-Rovers, C H M van Jaarsveld, J L A Hautvast, K van der...

I thought that this was of some interest as it has Wessely seeming to be unusually open about the limitations of questionnaires for assessing symptoms/disorders. Though this time that's seemingly partly because it goes against the 'work is good for you' creed used by the UK government (Waddell &...

Open access, https://content.iospress.com/articles/work/wor203174 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.3233/WOR-203174 ETA: Now open access.

Open access, https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/9/4/124

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/picnics-not-work-are-a-health-outcome-say-activists/

I was sure I'd seen this posted here, but now cannot see it. They say "The early involvement of occupational health practitioners is recommended to maximize the chances of maintaining employment." - Not seen any good evidence for any intervention intended to improve employment outcomes for CFS...

Study conducted by a Hospital CFS/ME unit in Barcelona, Spain. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7225-z

Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261018316649120

Available here: http://ijomeh.eu/The-relationship-between-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-burnout-job-satisfaction-social,91021,0,2.html Not a recommendation. I have only read the Abstract: What I find interesting there is that there is no correlation between CFS and anything. Also it appears that...

http://www.virology.ws/2019/01/23/trial-by-error-action-for-mes-employment-advice/ Also includes @Trish 's letter to AfME about the "Toolkit for professionals".

"Disabled people will be able to work with a dedicated key worker to get and stay in employment, the new Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd has announced today." Re the 'light touch' reviews, I'll believe it when I see it. (this may explain why the DWP were so interested to know about...

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2018/12/situations-vacant-we-are-recruiting-for-a-social-media-manager-12-december-2018/

http://ablemagazine.co.uk/chronically-ill-37-year-old-lands-first-ever-job-thanks-to-ground-breaking-uk-charity/

http://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Assets/Documents/Report-JRF/switchingfocus-full.pdf Found this via a Facebook post from the Chronic Illness Inclusion Project https://www.facebook.com/ChronicInclude/posts/646768392391838

https://inclusionproject.org.uk/guest-post/changing-the-system-so-that-more-chronically-ill-people-can-work/

The European ME Alliance has been a member organisation of the European Federation of Neurological Associations since 2015 (https://www.efna.net/emea/) This survey by EFNA includes M.E. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EFNA-YS It's open until 21st May and findings will be published on World...

Occupational Aspects of the Management of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a National Guideline Oct 2006 "Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a medically unexplained illness characterised by severe, disabling fatigue and other symptoms. Although there is a large body of research into CFS and its...