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This is new from last year and is from a current CMO (who was listed as one of the presenters on the recent ppt i linked to from swiss re about mental illnesses) not White. I don't think I can post the document I am referring to here as it is confidential but if you would like more info send me...

The CMO for Swiss Re is still recommending GET, CBT and quoting the PACE trial, oh and mindfulness!

It looks to me like they are trying to put even more illnesses into the MUS category: "On average, 52% of patients accessing outpatient services have MUS, with the highest rates relating to gynaecology clinics (66%) and the lowest rate (37%) relating to dental service" "The risks or associated...

If a teenager said I shouldnt take school records of absence as useful and should rely on what they told me about how often they attended school, I would be highly suspicious. How many parents trust that their children don't tell fibs?! Example - Did you do all of your homework? Yes, Can i go...

Were the diagnostic criteria thought to be important? As certain criteria are better than others and sone have been deemed to not he stringent enough.

whatever happens I imagine it will generate some more press coverage

Further down the line it may also be worth looking back at the legal challenge that was mounted after the last guideline was put in place. To see what issues came up so that we could keep an eye out for anything similar happening this time adtry to preempt/ deal with in case it doesnt go to plan...

this is where categorising techniques would be useful - so it will be highly unlikely that cbt/get will disappear. So if they have to be mentioned then it would be betterto put caveats with them ie they coukd help with management, they are not treatments for the actual disease, they should only...

It's great that a negative analysis has been published first by someone outside of the ME community - shows the tides are turning and that other people are now looking more at the way trials have been carried out and reported.

From all of the discussions I've had with medical people (not related to ME treatment) and insurance companies the one thing they all say is that ME is a psychiatric condition (unless they personally know someone with it). I can tell them that the government recognises it as a neurological...

One thing that might be worth asking about would be the acknowledgement of the WHO categorisation. When the last guideline was put together NICE decided not to categorise ME. In their web pages it says that the Group discussed it but some members wanted to accept the WHO definition and others...

Maybe there could be a division in the way that "treatments" are listed - there could be one section for treatments for the actual disease (which would of course me minimal as there is nothing proven to treat it), there could be a section on experimental treatments (this could be included in the...

Did anyone notice this comment in the COPE agenda paper - "The author indicated that similar requests had been made in the past and that, due to the controversial area of the work, many attempts were being made to retract articles that used the data from the clinic." I wonder which papers are...

It made me cry, it was so good at summarising the situation to date and reporting it in an easy to read article that those without ME will be able to get the picture in an informed way.

doh sorry - knew I would do something wrong - will remove it!

They were probably completely indoctrinated by the end of it!

I don't think it mentioned anything about recording the Lightning intervention sessions in any of the proposals, and what would be done regarding storage/usage of that information.

I found this video while pootling about on the interweb - While it is a mash up and not a true representation of overall presentations involved in the video, there is a clear section where Esther Crawley is presenting to the MRC (in 2010) about her trial. There are lots of things to comment...

ooh maybe you could post a reply to him which is just "STOP" written in a circle ;)

Interesting comment from EC "She added that self-reported school attendance lined up very well with the schools’ records of attendance". This means that she had the school records, if so why not use them rather than the self reporting?!