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Action for ME appointed Sian Berry as their newest Parliamentary Champion. On October the 3rd. https://www.actionforme.org.uk/sian-berry-mp-joins-our-parliamentary-champions-network/ Then on the 20th October Sian Berry asked this question in Parliament: 'To ask the Secretary of State...

What is ... 'the area under receiver operating characteristic (AUROC)' ? .

'Intervention: A self-management program including eight biweekly meetings of 2.5 hours duration. The control group received usual care.' 2 and a half hour meetings twice a week!! On top of traveling to the meetings. How mild/moderate would a patient have to be to keep up with those...

Thanks Peter.

Editorial. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 1995 'The Legend of Camelford: Medical Consequences of a Medical Accident' Anthony S David and Simon C Wessely chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.simonwessely.com/Downloads/Publications/Other_p/camelford.pdf ...

That's what I just pointed out.

https://measussex.org.uk/build-on-the-positives/:mad::wtf::thumbsdown:

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The deeply worrying Sussex NHS ME/CFS Service protocol. Heaven help new ME patients in Brighton/Hove and the rest of Sussex. 'Building up your Baseline, Increasing your activity and the benefits' 'Sussex NHS ME/CFS Service uses the term 'Building Up Your Baseline', with detailed...

This !! Thank you @bobbler .

Sussex NHS ME/CFS Service uses the term 'Building Up Your Baseline', with detailed instructions. Edit Add - there is No Reference to PEM in these NHS ME/CFS Sussex Services Pages. The Building Up Your Baseline link is at the bottom of the page on this link...

Dextro Naltrexone - From the LDN Research Trust site: https://ldnresearchtrust.org/how-low-dose-naltrexone-works 'Naltrexone, taken at the full dose of 200mg daily, has been licensed for use for the treatment of addictions since 1984. (5) It is currently used for both opiate and alcohol...

You are not wrong @bobbler -

I made a transcript of Charlie Mayfields statements in the Good Morning Britain interview. Further up the thread. True Charlie Mayfield doesn't understand any of the 3 models, Medical Model, Social Model, BioPsychoSocial Model .... But his Report is significantly about how many people are not...

Thread on the Government's 'Keep Britain Working' Review and it's Lead Charlie Mayfield, his worrying interview on Good Morning Britain, in which he revives the BiopsychoSocial Model and applies it to sick/disabled people's inability to work. Despite him being completely unable to even...

Charlie Mayfield appears to presume to redefine disability in that Good Morning Britain interview - He redefines Disability as 'Not Ill'. That would exclude all people with disabling diseases as 'Not Disabled', which would include Cerebral Palsy, Parkinsons, MND, MS, ME, etc and most especially...

'Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability' Tom Shakespeare Nicholas Watson, and Ola Abu Alghaib May 2016 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0261018316649120 'The biopsychosocial model (BPS) of mental distress, originally...

UK Government published the 'Keep Britain Working' Report on Thursday 5th November 2025. With lurid Headlines everywhere quoting wildly irresponsible scare figures on how much sick/disabled people are costing the UK and how sick/disabled people are threatening the future of the country. The...

I find the framing of pain as so subjective really scary. If pain is so very subjective then what's wrong with physical torture, in fact what's the point of physical torture? I also think that pain specialists/psychologists/therapists/researchers/minimisers/gaslighters/etc should be required...

No. Bio Psycho Social is Code for psychosomatic. It's not reasonable, rational or balanced. The term is too tainted to be useful.