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  1. Sly Saint

    McVey agrees to release Universal Credit reviews containing bullying claims

    " Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey has agreed to publish a series of reviews of Universal Credit after acknowledging there was “no point” in keeping them under wraps. The project assessment reviews for the flagship welfare reform reveal claims of bullying, harassment and discrimination...
  2. M

    United Kingdom: Getting a Wheelchair on the NHS

    After a recent bad relapse, I've come to the decision that I would like to try and apply for a wheelchair. I could of used one for a long time really, but pride gets in the way. There are probably 100s or even 1000s things I've missed over the years I could of gone to if I'd had the courage to...
  3. Andy

    United Kingdom: ME Research Collaborative (MERC) [was CMRC] news

    https://www.actionforme.org.uk/research/uk-cfsme-collaborative/ Screenshot of their linked file
  4. Sly Saint

    The M.E. trust (UK charity)

    Anyone know anything about this charity (apart from Countess of Mar is one of their patrons). They are on the NICE stakeholders list. I only found it because it gets mentioned a lot in this Parliamentary written evidence from c. 2014...
  5. Sly Saint

    Care Quality Commission - what are they doing re CBT/GET treatment for ME patients

    raised on another thread by @MEMarge. The CQC only deals with services in England but from briefly looking at their website the only ME/CFS service they seem to have inspected is Leeds which currently has an amber 'Requires Improvement' warning having been inspected in 2016. The various checks...
  6. Andy

    Disability New Sevice: Mystery over shock fall in disability benefits paid to older people

    https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mystery-over-shock-fall-in-disability-benefits-paid-to-older-people/
  7. R

    Analysis of minister’s response in Westminster Hall PACE debate

    Here is my analysis of the response from Caroline Dinenage MP, Minster of State for Care, during the Westminster Hall Debate on PACE and its effects on people with ME: https://www.meaction.net/2018/02/26/read-about-the-westminster-hall-debate-on-the-pace-trial-and-its-effects-on-people-with-me/...
  8. Arnie Pye

    UK: Sign this petition to save the NHS from being handed to multinational corporations

    Just found this on another forum : -------------------------------------- https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/205106 Just found this petition on Facebook about imminent changes to the NHS... "If you live in the UK, for you and your family this could well end up being the single most...
  9. Andy

    M.E. History: United Kingdom, Attempt to pass a bill on myalgic encephalomyelitis into law, 1988

    This was originally posted by @Cinders66 here On 23rd February 1988, Scottish MP Jimmy Hood tried to introduce a Bill in to the UK parliament "to require an annual report to Parliament on progress made in investigating the causes, effects and treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis." Details of...
  10. Esther12

    United Kingdom: 2007 NICE CFS/ME GUIDELINE

    I got asked to put these online. Not had a chance to read them yet myself, but apparently there may be some final minutes missing, as apparently they could not be found. They are numbered from 1-16, but I had difficulty getting them to attach in the right order. Sorry for any confusion.
  11. Sly Saint

    Petition: Remove CBT/GET from NICE guidelines NOW (ALL COUNTRIES can sign)

    NICE has promised to review its current guidelines on ME/CFS, which is not scheduled to be completed until 2020. Meanwhile it has left the current guidelines in place, despite the recommendations for treatments that are known to be harmful...
  12. Sly Saint

    Funding of ME/CFS research in the UK

    I thought that in response to the Ministers statement at the debate on PACE yesterday that a break down of funding for research between psychological 'treatment' and actual biomedical research would also clearly show how skewed the research into ME is. The only figures that have been collated...
  13. Sasha

    Tues 20 Feb | UK parliamentary debate: PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol Monaghan, MP

    We have a lot of threads about actions to take to support/promote this important event but no thread actually about the event itself. Parliamentary business for Tuesday 20 February 2018 House of Commons 11am - 11.30am Westminster Hall debate PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol...
  14. Hoopoe

    The Chronic Fatigue Service run by East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is closing

    https://www.elft.nhs.uk/service/308/Chronic-Fatigue-Service So what happened shortly before December 2016?
  15. Andy

    Support and inform Scottish MP Carol Monaghan ahead of her debate on the PACE trial in Parliament, Tuesday 20th February 2018

    We already have an extensive discussion thread on the subject here, https://www.s4me.info/threads/call-to-action-westminster-hall-uk-parliamentary-debate-pace-trial-and-its-effect-on-people-with-me-carol-monaghan-february-20.2294/ This thread is intended to gather the various ways we can inform...
  16. Skycloud

    Work and Pensions Select Comittee (UK) findings re: failures of PIP and ESA assessments

    Article in the Guardian Friday Feb 9th 2018 'Substantial minority' of disability claimants failed by system – MPs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/09/disability-claimants-substantial-minority-failed-by-assessment-system-mps-committee
  17. Dolphin

    Call to Action: Westminster Hall (UK) (parliamentary) debate: PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol Monaghan February 20

    Parliamentary business for Tuesday 20 February 2018 House of Commons 11am - 11.30am Westminster Hall debate PACE trial and its effect on people with ME - Carol Monaghan...
  18. MeSci

    Childhood sleep and adolescent CFS/ME: evidence of associations in a UK birth cohort (2018) Crawley et al.

    http://www.sleep-journal.com/article/S1389-9457(18)30017-0/fulltext?cc=y= Simon M. Collin, Tom Norris, Paul Gringras, Peter S. Blair, Kate Tilling, Esther Crawley Abstract Objective /Background: Sleep abnormalities are characteristic of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS, also known as ‘ME’), but...
  19. Andy

    King's Health Partners, "Medically Unexplained Symptoms A Practical Guide", March 2017

    This was highlighted on @Tom Kindlon 's Facebook page. Delightful presentation from just under a year ago from King's Health Partners (https://www.kingshealthpartners.org/), explaining how, among other conditions, CFS is a MUS (or Persistent Physical Symptoms condition, the term us patients...
  20. Sly Saint

    SNOMED CT implementation in primary care UK

    " Why primary care needs to migrate to SNOMED CT Two versions of clinical codes (Read v2 and CTV3) currently exist in General Practice. Not all GP systems use the same coding system. Parts of the Read code vocabulary are full and new codes have been allocated to unrelated areas. This makes...
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