The former homeopathy hospital provides services for ME / CFS and other conditions, including LP.
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How was the Scottish Hom. Hospital renamed? Has it the same name as the Engish renamed one? Anyway I suppose these Long Covid merger-clinic "strategies" must be evaluated - I expect independently - by a national research platform, since these strategies seem to be offered as therapeutic treatments.
(click on the arrow above to find the broken battery video giving the BBC interview with Dr Scott and a patient in need of virtual reality)
- where virtual reality is the only NHS contract in town, it has a sure-fire monoply, as did ME/CFS rehab clinics
I was wondering, could this face-to-face Glasgow ME/CFS service be a service extended to ME/CFS patients by a Long Covid clinic in Glasgow, maybe one of the forerunners of these newer clinics merging the 2 conditions as if either:
- co-morbid or
- one and the same or
- one being the severe form of the other or
- one then exacerbated by the other (and vice versa) or
- whichever, correlating with repeat infections
These optional coded definitions will be an interesting read as provided in the format and guideline for the referrer assessments, the referrals, and the intake assessments
I note that Dr Scott adds - in her BBC interview - that there will be provision for a face-to-face ME/CFS service if needed, which I take to mean where and when its needed
Question being, is this face-to-face service available from a doctor with what knowledege of ME/CFS, or from some other "needed" clinician said to be a "specialist" in ME/CFS. but:
- distinctly not a specialist as one understands the word "specialist" to mean: qualified as a hospital consultant or at that level. Maybe specialist in the variation of standard rehab & CBT
So yes, a duke or an earl might be demoted to a christian name, King can become a surname, but this is the NHS whiuch delivered the demotion of "specialist" to mean any "therapist" in a dedicated clinic.
The reason for this question is:
* the provision of this new service - with its option(s) on face-to-face service - was much appreciated by the patient whom the BBC also interviewed.
She was very re-assured because there of events which GPs might not recognise, as did sadly happen to her in the past, so put her off GP consultations. Dr. Scott reported such aversions.
But now this patient can iroutnely take new symptoms, which might or might not be ME/CFS, into a real specialist consultation, and if need be see the specialist "face to face".
Eg for a phsyical examination (by a doctor).
The reason given for a primary care service to be, as launched, predominantly online for all initial consultative purposes, is because of NHS coverage still falling short (like fuel, water and comms coverage) in all the remote isolated rural districts across Britain
- exactly where the MEA app, and all the other traded apps are being so heavily promoted, since these still need a monoploy to be fully appreciated (by people with no other options) so won't go down so weell, in more populated, NICE-compliant areas
- all due to rural staff shortfalls for clinics, home visits, outpatient transport, district nurses and home helps. Like the rural shortfalls of plumbing, power-grid, mobile fone, cable and wi-fi coverage also taking years to catch up (across the world wherever out-sourced to commerce)
But maybe Wales in particular developed another problem with byzantine reluctance to cater for the isolated or house-bound
