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I scored zero points on assessment but on appeal i was considered as having limited capability for work related activity. This was because the assessment isn't meant to take whether you can actually work into account, it's only there to make yr life more difficult. The existence of the...

Cannot like but i don't disagree with you. Appointment of Liz Kendall to the shadow DWP brief yesterday feels like a decisively bad move in this direction

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-new-welfare-reforms-to-help-thousands-into-work Distinct feeling that they're rushing thru this. Tendency with consultations in general has been to decide policy first and then put a faint sheen of pseudo-accountability over the top

New consultation on changes to the WCA (UK ESA/UC benefit assessment for out of work sick and disabled) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1182410/work-capability-assessment-activities-and-descriptors-consultation.pdf Document...

The Register of Lightning Process Practitioners have an answer to that : ) I admire the way they frequently use the phrase "conflict of interest" to indicate that someone had already investigated their treatment and found it to be rubbish. Presumably the committee should have consisted of...

i'm tired, but i couldn't face any more anyway. i just had a flick thru, there's over a thousand pages and the royal colleges stuff is excruciating. Not even funny, just deeply stuck in an idea of CFS that's never been relevant

OTs keep making the (very good) point that there are physiological things known about the illness that it might be useful for patients to know about, then keep obsessively diverting back to autonomic dysfunction which probably plays not much more than a minor role if anything. This is not...

i cannot emphasise how damaging it is to patients' (my) mental health to have someone turn up pretending they know what to do, only to find out that they haven't the faintest idea what they're doing. This is the thing that, in my experience, "limits engagement" with the therapeutic process. OTs...

Ok, back with the occupational therapists, who's support for the guideline i assume rests on the fact that, come rain or shine, it will doubtless be implemented by them anyway This HPA stuff is something i see a lot of these days. One would think that working to poorly evidenced models and...

i've got to the royal colleges (p678), i'm going to have a break

LOL, the LP guy is upset about "unsubstantiated opinions instead of evidence"

tldr: they aren't happy This is an understatement, they go on forever, lots of 'why is this person here, that guy hates us...'

Was waiting for this to be phrased in this way, from the extremely exercised Newcastle upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (who is behind this? they go on at great length) that being that they don't work #Technical. I am actually very surprised they went with this in the comments, this...

Full credit to the Institute of Osteopathy for all their comments basically being 'won't someone think of the poor underemployed osteopaths?" :emoji_cry:

Lotta mindfulness here, Qigong too. I have more sympathy than some will have for herbal medicine, but if i truly expected the NHS to consider it as a front line, paid for treatment i would be very foolish. No mention of actual homeopathy yet, the ghost of George Lewith grows impatient...

Wahay!

considerable upset that these guideline have been written for the benefit of patients rather than the chartered society of physiotherapists

LOL at CSPs suggested guidelines, which claim that the previous programme (what I assume to be GET) "seems to have been significantly misunderstood", presumably because they've decided to change the definition of it after the trials without telling anyone

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy strongly pushing GET on the basis of GETSET, oh dear... (edit) i tell a lie, it's "guided graded exercise self help intervention", silly me

Some full yikes content from the CFS/ME Service for South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire – Children and Young People’s Team, this is what i'm here for. Will someone think of the sign writers! ...Poor Phil...