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Just had a quick look. Looks like it is in her house, with fixed cameras and a sound man outside the window. Several of her "guests" are in their own homes too and she just had a link to a design/technology classroom in a school where they are putting together "splatter" screens. Should have...

@ladycatlover There was a pretty short time frame for comments, so that a card could be printed and delivered, but then came COVID....

What about @Tom Kindlon

Yes, some good news. Have only just noticed the second half of this title. "Workshop Two Persistent (Medically Unexplained) Physical Symptoms: A Scientist Practitioner Approach Trudie Chalder, King’s College London and David McCormack, Queen’s University Belfast" Does she REALLY believe that...

Absolutely agree.

Interesting report about testing a drug which is inhaled to deliver IFN-B to the lungs to increase the antiviral activity. Phase 2 Trials in asthma have been encouraging. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2020/03/covid19-drugs-trial.page Apologies if this has already been mentioned, have not...

It will be interesting to see what happens with the Priority Setting Partnership, announced at the CMRC conference. Many of the sessions are remote, but a few included in person days.

Excuse me while I go and throw up.

Now watching Jo Daniels on BBC news talking about mental health during CoVid probs. ETA: That was the 6pm news.

Please continue with your fundraising PwME need you.

Hospital, BBC 1, 19 March 2020 FND not ME On now, this is covering FND

I think they have ample members of the APPG now, for it to exist/function etc. Great that more MPs are happy to be kept in the loop though.

There are some great and relevant quotes about "experts",in the following BMJ "Field Guide to Experts" https://www.bmj.com/content/329/7480/1460.full.pdf+html

This is so waffly/full of sociology blurb but the following sentence under the sub-heading "use and adaptation of NPT" (a couple of paras up from Table 5) made me want to shout out an expletive or 3. "However, one paper suggests that focussing on the individual and collective agency of actors...

Thanks @Gecko. Presumably this talk will be available to llisten to later on, for those not free tomorrow afternoon?

I'm still hoping to make it

Great comment @Invisible Woman.

NICE is also supposed to cover social care these days. A member of our group has had a social care assessment, and gets some benefit to help pay for a carer. It is means-tested. Would you be eligible for PIP? Also the APPG, chaired by Carol Monaghan MP, is looking into the two following areas...

Not sure there are many members. The main thing they do is organise this annual event and turn up to Forward ME afaik. Have sent them an email alerting them to the error. Looks as though there is just an extra . after uk which is the problem. www.remembercfs.org.uk

@Gecko can you think of anyone who has followed GET and got worse, who hasn't yet told their story?