Your experience of ME services - Survey report by #MEAction UK
Article: https://www.meaction.net/2019/10/17/me-services-in-the-uk-not-fit-for-purpose/
Full report: https://www.meaction.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Your-experience-of-ME-services-Survey-report-by-MEAction-UK.pdf
Results...
Just seen this on facebook, and to me it looks appalling.
Is this even legal?
In preparation for their JCP appointment someone with ME has to prepare a Positive Health Statement. In it the are 'advised' to avoid words like Chronic, or ME.
As per:
This thread has been split from
https://www.s4me.info/threads/jk-rowling-donates-£15-3m-to-edinburgh-ms-research-centre.11260/
And as I've said in another thread, since 2004, the MEA has been run by a small and relatively unchanging Board of Trustees who determine its policies and have...
Maybe this will translate into greater sensitivity towards ME/CFS as this is the place of the ME/CFS Biobank.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-chief-medical-officer-appointed
OMEGA, Oxfordshire M.E. Group
Date And Time
Sat, 19 October 2019
14:00 – 16:00 BST
Location
Jury’s Inn
Wolvercote
Oxford
OX2 8AL
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-tuller-discusses-mecfs-and-the-uk-medical-establishment-tickets-70094886693
https://www.wonderful.org/fundraiser/highlightingtraumafrommedicalencounterswithme-b89a2139?sfns=mo
We're raising funds for the above research. Dr Adeniji is new to the field but his senior supervisors are not. A Professor of GP and a trauma psychologist will provide advice.
This preliminary...
Capita seeks to reverse 'reputational damage' after death of claimant
By Michael Buchanan
Social affairs correspondent, BBC News
Benefit-assessment company Capita is going to court to try to reverse the "reputational damage" it says it suffered after a claimant died.
Victoria Smith died...
The number of Britons diagnosed with Lyme disease could be three times higher than previously thought, new research has found.
Up to 8,000 people a year in the UK may suffer from the disease, which can lead to severe joint and nerve problems.
Analysis of medical records found the number of...
A young woman with ME has started UK Parliamentary petition seeking training in relation to ME for teachers:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/266152
It can be signed by any UK resident or UK citizens including those living overseas.
[I could not find this posted anywhere, but admins delete this if I am duplicating.]
There is a ‘survey’ on line, effectively asking people to support the retention of the current UK specialist ME provision, see
https://cfs-me-nhs.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/specialist-services
This survey appears...
My aim with this is to draw together brief details of all the ME/CFS (and all other variants on that name) research funded by a public, private or charity UK source that is currently ongoing today.
I’m relying on information that has been made publicly available, so there is a good chance I...
https://www.meassociation.org.uk/2019/06/meeting-with-minister-raised-important-concerns-about-welfare-benefits-for-people-with-me-26-june-2019/
Hopefully DWP will take on board the issues raised
Just wanting to query the facts in this post from MEA fb 'visitor's posts - i wasnt aware of LP being mentioned in parliament since the January debate... does anyone know anything about the veracity of this?
I'd like to support Jo & point out that regardless of whether it was "reported in...
please can people comment on the reasons why if they wish
I’m trying to see what the views are and why on this matter
Basically the MRC are in talks with the CMRC over a funding proposal for extending the uk biobank and doing genetics research (this is taking a long time ) and have an...
Woman, 28, goes from keen runner to year in dark room because of severe disorder
Jonathan admits he has seen his beloved fiancée’s character slowly slip away without any real support from the NHS in Wales.
“The only things offered by the doctor were antidepressants, which made Natalie’s ME...
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