UK: Harrogate and District NHS: Living with Pain and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME Service

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  1. Sly Saint

    Sly Saint Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Living with Pain and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME Service - Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (hdft.nhs.uk)
     
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    Hutan Moderator Staff Member

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    It's interesting to read that @Sly Saint. I mean, of course there are things that could be improved, the focus on fatigue, the 'CFS/ME', the suggestion that the diagnosis is based on having otherwise unexplained fatigue, the complete lack of a mention of PEM. It really is remarkable that a specialist service seems to understand the illness so poorly.

    But the framing 'Living (as well as possible) with ME/CFS' is good.

    It's interesting how a service composed only of physiotherapists, occupational therapists and psychologists can, at least in appearances, adapt to be compliant with the NICE Guideline and, more importantly, potentially offer a useful support service to people with incurable chronic conditions.

    I haven't clicked through to the link, so I don't know what they actually do in practice. I suspect I would disagree with at least some of it, not least because I don't get a sense from this that the staff understand the disease. But, I found this potential rehabilitation of the BPS model interesting.
     
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    MEMarge Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    The introductory video on the link is not very encouraging.

    BPS, goals to work towards, boom and bust .....
     
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