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Two questions: (1) Does the DWP accept reports from private consultants as medical evidence? I mean like, will they be snobby about it and not take it seriously if it's not from the NHS? (2) Do they usually contact your GP? I've had very little contact with GP in last few years, and when I...

https://www.nice.org.uk/news/blog/how-nice-is-improving-patient-safety

This post and all to post #12 have been moved here from the BPS attempts at psychologising Long Covid thread. Links to Warwick University and National Institute of Health Research web pages in this post Eurekalert: New clinical trial to test whether structured exercise benefits 'long covid'...

'Results of probably the largest-ever survey of opinion among people with ME/CFS and their carers about what treatments and therapies work for them and what don’t are available for downloading. The link to the PDF is at the bottom of this story. The survey also shows what people with the...

https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-019-2235-z Naomi Petra Moller, Gemma Ryan, Jasmine Rollings & Michael Barkham Abstract This commentary examines publicly available information on 2017–2018 outcomes in the UK government’s Improving Access to Psychological...

doi:10.1136/ebmental-2019-300133 Sci-Hub Alice Davis, Theresa Smith, Jenny Talbot, Chris Eldridge, David Betts ABSTRACT Background Across England, 12% of all improving access to psychological therapy (IAPT) appointments are missed, and on average around 40% of first appointments are not...

https://www.jmir.org/2020/10/e17049/

https://adc.bmj.com/content/105/Suppl_1/A188.1 PDF

https://www.bacme.info/sites/bacme.info/files/BACME%20Position%20Paper%20on%20the%20Management%20of%20ME-CFS%20October%202020.pdf Available directly from their home page, https://www.bacme.info/ My guess (I have no insider knowledge) is that this gives a strong indication of how the revised...

Preprint paper here: Persistent symptoms after Covid-19: qualitative study of 114 long Covid patients and draft quality criteria for services Emma Ladds, Alexander Rushforth, Sietse Wieringa, Sharon Taylor, Clare Rayner, Laiba Husain, Trisha Greenhalgh This article is a preprint and has not...

Moved from this thread: Possibility of ME or PVFS after COVID-19, Long Covid _________________ https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-sign-announce-latest-rapid-covid-19-guideline-will-address-long-covid NICE & SIGN announce latest rapid Covid-19 guideline will address Long Covid NICE and...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953620305888 Some of these have been involved with annoying papers in the past Social Science & Medicine Available online 16 September 2020, 113369 In Press, Journal Pre-proof

Improving teaching about medically unexplained symptoms for newly qualified doctors in the UK: findings from a questionnaire survey and expert workshop https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/4/e014720 I picked up on this from article in this thread...

Thought this might be of interest. It's long. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjhp.12418

https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/policies-standards-legislation/research-transparency/

Due in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/132955332/pdf_proof_re_submit.pdf https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/cognitive-behavioural-therapy-for-chronic-fatigue-and-cfs(67b43c92-f30b-4e21-a7b6-1b94e2ead525).html

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) in the United Kingdom: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of 10‐years of practice‐based evidence Sarah Wakefield Melanie Simmonds‐Buckley Daniel Stockton Abigail Bradbury Jaime Delgadillo 23 June 2020 Published in the British Journal of...

RC Psych (Royal College of Psychiatrists) Chronic fatigue syndrome: helping your child to get better (note: Disclaimer This is information, not advice. Please read our disclaimer.)...

https://www.meaction.net/2020/07/15/take-action-graded-exercise-harming-people-with-me-and-covid-long-haulers/

full article here https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ehrc-failed-to-consult-its-own-disabled-advisers-before-snubbing-dwp-deaths-probe/