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The NIHR has just funded £37 million into charities for research purposes but alas there isn't a list of what its actually funded included. I suspect we would have heard from the UK charities if they had received funding from the NIHR. This is the only possibility of ME funding coming from the NIHR I have seen in years of following a feed of all their news.

 
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NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache

After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment
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NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache​

After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment​
 
BrightCandle said:
The NIHR has just funded £37 million into charities for research purposes but alas there isn't a list of what its actually funded included. I suspect we would have heard from the UK charities if they had received funding from the NIHR. This is the only possibility of ME funding coming from the NIHR I have seen in years of following a feed of all their news.

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"The scheme, in partnership with the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC), will help medical research charities continue to play a vital role in igniting research careers, building research capacity and sustaining the talent pipeline."

So my guess would be that to receive any of the funding you would need to be a member of the AMRC and, to my knowledge, none of the ME/CFS charities are.
 
Dolphin said:
Jessica Bavinton is the physiotherapist that co-wrote the PACE Trial GET manuals.
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How persistent pain or fatigue does not mean the end of being able to sustain work… — Vitality 360

Having a diagnosis of ME/CFS or Fibromyalgia or Long Covid is not necessarily an end to engaging with activities including working. Here one of our team shares something of her personal experience of sustaining work whilst managing fatigue symptoms aswell as many accounts from past clients who have
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That's horrifying - scarce government funds being spent to give people basic activity planning advice and probably pacing up. 8 hours of therapist advice (that they could get for free from reading a few MEA leaflets) for over £1600, and supposedly getting people back to work.
 
Dolphin said:
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Jessica Bavinton is the physiotherapist that co-wrote the PACE Trial GET manuals. People have been referred to her services by insurance companies as I recall.
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This is literally making work a health outcome.

It sounds a lot like training people into work and never mind the consequences, check out the employment figures!

"86% of return-to-work goals achieved through our rehabilitation programmes"

Whose goals? Government or claimant?

That fact that one of the people involved in this was an author of the PACE manual and is still being given government money makes the government's inability to learn from their mistakes pathological.
 
JellyBabyKid said:
This is literally making work a health outcome.

It sounds a lot like training people into work and never mind the consequences, check out the employment figures!

"86% of return-to-work goals achieved through our rehabilitation programmes"

Whose goals? Government or claimant?

That fact that one of the people involved in this was an author of the PACE manual and is still being given government money makes the government's inability to learn from their mistakes pathological.
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www.theguardian.com

‘Financial pandemic’: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity

Almost £24.4bn of government money went to private equity-run firms in year to April 2025, Guardian analysis shows
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‘Financial pandemic’: £1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes to private equity​

Almost £24.4bn of government money went to private equity-run firms in year to April 2025, Guardian analysis shows

One pound in every £11 of UK government spending on contractors went to private equity-controlled companies last year, research shows, including key services such as transport, waste management and healthcare.

Politicians and economists have raised concerns over the “financial fragility and sharp cost cutting” created by private equity-backed firms, which often have high levels of debt, and the “conflicting interests” in running public services for maximum profit.
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NHS England and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have confirmed a major vaccine rollout for older adults from September.

The NHS Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccination programme is being expanded to adults aged between 65 and 74 years in certain clinical at risk groups later this year. The RSV vaccine has been routinely available to older adults as they turn 75 since September 2024, and was extended to include all adults aged 80 and over, and all residents in care homes, in April this year. But the eligibility criteria is now being expanded even further to include adults aged 65 to 74 years following advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).


NHS England and the UKHSA confirmed this change on Wednesday, July 1, and said GPs will offer the vaccine to those who are eligible from September 1.
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