News from The Netherlands

[Utsikt]

For people reading this thread, what formatting do you prefer on the Parliamentary questions? The first one;
- a one page screen shot in silver gray (see the Bikker questions)
- several pages, but bigger font (see the Bushoff questions)

In an ideal world: copied as plain text so that it shows up in the format I use for S4ME. I can’t really read with a white background, so the format of the images doesn’t matter much.

If that isn’t possible, the second one works better on mobile.

 

[Alinda]

For people reading this thread, what formatting do you prefer on the Parliamentary questions? The first one;
- a one page screen shot in silver gray (see the Bikker questions)
- several pages, but bigger font (see the Bushoff questions)

I prefer 1 page.

 

[NelliePledge]

My preference would be for normal sized text - large images can cause visual problems

 

[Chestnut tree]

Two Dutch support groups have appointed Sophie Querido as new director.

They are:
- C-support (for covid aftercare)
- Q-support (for Q-fever expertise)

Sophie Querido benoemd tot nieuwe bestuurder C-support - C-support

C-support heeft een nieuwe directeur-bestuurder benoemd: dr. Sophie Querido. Ze start per 1 september en volgt de huidige bestuurder Annemieke de Groot op

www.c-support.nu

Sophie Querido benoemd tot nieuwe bestuurder Q-support - Q-support

Q-support heeft een nieuwe directeur-bestuurder benoemd: dr. Sophie Querido. Ze start per 1 september en volgt de huidige bestuurder Annemieke de Groot op.

www.q-support.nu

English

https://en.c-support.nu/sophie-querido-benoemd-tot-nieuwe-bestuurder-c-support/

Sophie Querido benoemd tot nieuwe bestuurder Q-support - Q-support

Q-support heeft een nieuwe directeur-bestuurder benoemd: dr. Sophie Querido. Ze start per 1 september en volgt de huidige bestuurder Annemieke de Groot op.

www-q--support-nu.translate.goog

 

[Chestnut tree]

Onrust onder patiënten met Q-koorts en long covid: nazorg hapert en dreigt te verdwijnen​

Onrust onder patiënten met Q-koorts en long covid: nazorg hapert en dreigt te verdwijnen

Patiënten die kampen met postcovid- of Q-koortsklachten willen duidelijkheid over hun nazorg en ondersteuning. Die ligt nu bij de bekritiseerde stichtingen Q-support en C-support. Krijgen zij opnieuw subsidie of gaan ze op in een grotere organisatie? Of dat op korte termijn duidelijk wordt, is...

fd.nl

English Translation

Unrest among patients with Q-fever and Long Covid; after care is stalling and is at risk to disappear.

 

[Chestnut tree]

From @guustweet at X

Patiëntenorganisaties zijn ontevreden over C-support en Q-support. Ze hebben het vertrouwen in het bestuur opgezegd. #LongCovid #Qkoorts #QVS

English translation
Patient organizations are dissatisfied with C-support and Q-support. They have lost confidence in the board. #LongCovid #Qkoorts #QVS

Quote from the FD article

 

[Chestnut tree]

The dutch public broadcaster NOS, runs another article on MEcfs.

The item details an open letter that was signed by 100 healthcare workers and sent to the NVK (Dutch association of pediatrics) and the VGCt (Association for Behavioral and Cognitive therapy) where they call for change to the current MEcfs treatment guidelines for children and adolescents.

Zorgcollega's roepen kinderartsen tot de orde over uitputtingsziekte ME/CVS​

Dutch version

Zorgcollega's roepen kinderartsen tot de orde over uitputtingsziekte ME/CVS

Artsen en psychologen roepen collega's op om niet vast te houden aan achterhaalde behandelingen.

nos.nl

Healthcare colleagues call pediatricians to order over exhaustion disease ME/CFS​

English version

Zorgcollega's roepen kinderartsen tot de orde over uitputtingsziekte ME/CVS

Artsen en psychologen roepen collega's op om niet vast te houden aan achterhaalde behandelingen.

nos-nl.translate.goog

 

[Utsikt]

"The realization that I may have wronged young people with ME/CFS, often seriously ill, is painful," says former GZ psychologist Wieke Pasman, one of the signatories. Pasman contracted the similar long covid during the pandemic and, as a patient, did notice that cognitive behavioral therapy as a treatment has risks for people suffering from diseases such as long covid and ME/CFS.

'Self-reproach'​

“At the beginning of my own illness, I struggled with self-reproach, partly because I had missed biomedical knowledge about ME/CFS, despite always keeping a close eye on the scientific literature.”

I’m glad they’ve changed their mind, but I find the last part a bit lacking of self-awareness. Anyone that had seen any of the BPS literature on ME/CFS should be able to recognise the flaws. The issue isn’t that they missed the biomedical research (there isn’t much regardless), but that they didn’t see through the terrible BPS research.

 

[Chestnut tree]

Here is a link to the open letter that 100 healthcare workers signed and sent to the NVK (Dutch association of pediatrics) and the VGCt (Association for Behavioral and Cognitive therapy) where they call for change to the current MEcfs treatment guidelines for children and adolescents.

In Dutch

Adobe Acrobat

acrobat.adobe.com

In English

OPEN BRIEF – Meer dan 100 ondertekenaars - artsen, psychologen en andere zorgprofessionals - zijn klaar voor verandering in de zorg voor kinderen en jongeren met ME/CVS. | Tanya Hautermans

OPEN BRIEF – Meer dan 100 ondertekenaars - artsen, psychologen en andere zorgprofessionals - zijn klaar voor verandering in de zorg voor kinderen en jongeren met ME/CVS. Naar aanleiding van de NOS publicaties van journalist Sander Zurhake over de behandeling van kinderen en jongeren met ME/CVS...

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[Nightsong]

"Trial By Error: Dutch Journalist Faces Off Against CBT/GET Ideologues":

https://virology.ws/2025/06/25/trial-by-error-dutch-journalist-faces-off-against-cbt-get-ideologues/

 

[Chestnut tree]

"Trial By Error: Dutch Journalist Faces Off Against CBT/GET Ideologues":

https://virology.ws/2025/06/25/trial-by-error-dutch-journalist-faces-off-against-cbt-get-ideologues/

Thank you @dave30th for shining the light on this. Quite extraordinary for the NOS. Very thankful for Sander Zurhake.