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If the claim is against the NHS then there's a whole bureaucratised process Advice for claimants* see also Negligence in the NHS: liability costs the NHS pays out over £2 billion a year in claims, most settled without ever getting to Court or public attention. If the NHS itself is not liable...

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/healthstatelifeexpectanciesuk/2018to2020#disability-free-life-expectancy-in-the-uk

ONS Health state life expectancies, UK: 2018 to 2020 1. Main Points Healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth in the UK showed no significant change between 2015 to 2017 and 2018 to 2020. In Scotland, there was a statistically significant decrease of more than a year in male HLE at birth...

Patients/advocates are unlikely to have editorial control, it's naive to assume that any programme commissioner or production team are going to be 'on our side' or maintain a brief to give ME/CFS advocacy a boost. In the case of UK TV broadcasters they are under legal restrictions regarding...

For a legal route one has to start with an identifiable wrong - the wrong may be contested but there has to be some capacity for the wrong to be describable in a way that is meaningful in common language and which is then translatable into a legal context, not every 'wrong' is capable of being...

I don't know how much the an edition of Panorama costs but there's no way department heads could justify not broadcasting a finished programme without some major public legal process or the intervention of Senior management which would itself bring publicity. What may be more plausible is that...

UK Public Spending Details for 2024 https://ukpublicspending.co.uk/year_spending_2024UKbn_17bc1n_40000102#ukgs302 Pensions: Total 191.1 0.0 0.0 191.1 Sickness and disability 56.6 0.0 0.0 56.6 Old age 132.7 0.0 0.0 132.7 Welfare...

For at least 30 years it's been a cornerstone of ME advocacy that there are large numbers of patients which demands high levels of investment - UK quoted figures usually 125,00 - 250,00, so at least 3.5 x the maximum for a rare disease.

I don't understand. Who are the defendants against who a claim is to be made ? NICE is the responsible body for guidelines - what recompensable harm is that NICE is can be sued for ? Pace was the responsibility of its investigators, again what recompensable harm is to be sued for ? The fatigue...

Agree with all the above, but the question: "how feasible it is to measure people’s experience of fatigue and change in severity of fatigue in response to a nutrition intervention. .. ?" can't be answered with any precision without the foundational hypothesis for the trial of a...

Author affiliations: a Département de psychiatrie, CHU de Nîmes, PSNREC, Inserm, université de Montpellier, Nîmes, France b Département de Neurologie, CHU Nîmes, université de Montpellier, institut de génomique fonctionnelle, University Montpellier, CNRS, Inserm, Montpellier, France c Pôle...

Ministers set out plan to train and keep more NHS staff More doctors and nurses will be trained and thousands of new roles will be created to work alongside them, as part of a major NHS England workforce plan. University places for medical students will double, a new apprenticeship scheme for...

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What is the route from Engel's biopsychosocial "model" to a "biopsychosocial disorder" ? Does this mean a patient can be 'socially disordered' ?

Quoted article: https://www.s4me.info/threads/recovery-and-symptom-trajectories-up-to-two-years-after-sars-cov-2-infection-population-based-longitudinal-cohort-study-2023-ballouz-et-al.33557/

Problems with the FSS concept aside, I think that authors are dealing with a real phenomenon. It is undoubtedly the case that young people report a high number of potentially significant medical symptoms which are not currently related to known pathophysiology, Table 1 of the current study...

Document has implications for 'care' in general especially levels of pay, recruitment and levels of provision e.g: Figure 2.15. Wages of personal care workers kept pace with the average wage over the past decade Wages of personal care workers in residential and non-residential care sectors as...

OECD Beyond Applause? Improving Working Conditions in Long-Term Care Executive summary The COVID-19 pandemic put a huge strain on the health and care systems, and it was thanks to the strenuous work and commitment of care workers that many lives were saved and people in need got support. We...

The Kings Fund How does the NHS compare to the health care systems of other countries ? Siva Anandaciva *Comparing the health care systems of different countries can help politicians and policy‑makers assess how the UK health care system is performing and where it could improve. *For...