legal action

Source: Dutch Steungroep Several patients with MEcfs who were denied disability benefits or disability benefits were halted, took legal action. Translation (it does not translate, seems a protected article, so this is a manual version) 28th of May 2025 An exiting day at the Central Council of...

The Scottish Health Department has posted an interim statement advising caution over the suitability of Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) in treating ME/CFS and has reiterated the earlier statement from NICE cautioning against use of GET in Post/Long-Covid. Following a review of the evidence behind...

Recent discussions about engaging Panorama and Dispatchers and the failed previous attempts discussed on this thread https://www.s4me.info/threads/pitching-to-panorama-efforts-to-commission-a-documentary-on-nice-guideline-bad-science-pace-etc-and-patient-harm.33997/ has made me want to open a...

Do androids dream of judicial review? Challenges to automated decision-making processes in the public sector While the idea of significant decisions being made with no human involvement was once the preserve of science fiction, automated decision-making processes (ADMPs) are increasingly being...

A healthcare company has been held responsible in court for the financial impact suffered by a worker who developed Long Covid, in the first case of its kind in the Netherlands. https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/03/nurse-wins-long-covid-compensation-case-picks-up-infection-at-work

''I'm Sally Callow, Founder of ME Foggy Dog, a social enterprise based in the UK. As an advocate, I have noticed that increasingly over recent years, the M.E/C.F.S patient community has been frustrated at the perceived lack of legal action from M.E/C.F.S charities in relation to political...

Deadline of November 10th 2017 to submit your input to the parliamentary inquiry on PIP and ESA http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/work-and-pensions-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/pip-esa-assessments-17-19/