UK:Funding: National Institute of Health and Care Research: NICE rolling call (Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme), closes 6th Dec 2022

The Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications to this funding opportunity. The programme is interested in receiving applications to meet recommendations in research identified in NICE guidance that has been published or updated since 2015.

Proposals must be within the remit of the EME Programme and the primary outcome measure must be health related. (This call is also open in the Public Health Research (PHR), Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programmes for proposals which fall within the remit of those programmes - applicants should apply directly to the relevant programme).

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/22109-nihr-nice-rolling-call-eme-programme/31199


The recommendations for research made in the NICE guideline for ME/CFS can be found here, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng206/chapter/Recommendations-for-research

 

Has something been said about the defiant opposition from most clinics and services? How many of them are clearly and explicitly using language that is either very duplicitous (NICE recommends CBT when it says make it available if demanded) or even explicitly trying to work around (GET not called GET). I don't think it's normal. Or I really hope so anyway.

Because that's the main obstacle, and it's not even subtle, it was loudly announced they would do that. It says very uncomfortable things about so-called evidence-based medicine and patient-hostile, or maybe patient-indifferent, care.

It's simply not normal to have professionals engaging in mass sabotage like this. Healthcare seems generally unable to look inward, but that's really why things are so broken. This refusal is especially bizarre given it's happening alongside Long Covid, a mess of equal proportion.

It's not research on ME, but research on ME is explicitly blocked because of this. Alongside maintaining a debunked ideological framework. That deserves a whole lot of research, it's so bizarre.