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    NICE Guideline Committee Register of Interests, 9 April 2019

    Agreed, the register's absence of checks on Christopher Burton's partipation - notably for MSS3 - isn't encouraging news. As declaring and managing interests is an ongoing process I imagine it's possible CB's recent relevant interests may be reviewed if MUS comes under consideration, but I would...
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    NICE Guideline Committee meeting 1 minutes - 6 February 2019

    The minutes for the first Guideline Committee meeting have been published: [PDF]: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-ng10091/documents/minutes Link to documents page: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10091/documents
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    NICE Guideline Committee Register of Interests, 9 April 2019

    The Register of Interests for the NICE Guideline Committee has been published. [PDF] https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/gid-ng10091/documents/register-of-interests Link to documents page: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ng10091/documents
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    Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Faults and Implications Michiel Tack 2019

    @Dx Revision Watch pointed out in her proposal, Rationale for Proposal for Deletion of the Entity: Bodily distress disorder that Creed, Rief and others have interchanged BDS and BDD in published work. In this case re SSD, it is just a persistent typo, so even if correction to the body of text...
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    UK: Text box tribunals to replace most PIP and ESA appeal hearings - Benefits & Work, 5 March 2019

    Text box tribunals to replace most PIP and ESA appeal hearings Benefits & Work 5 March 2019 Guidance: HMCTS tribunal reform event 26 February 2019 Held at Exeter Combined Court on 26 February 2019, this event discussed the future of the tribunals system. [PDF] Tribunal event slides 26...
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    Rod Liddle in the Times: "Always fatigued — yet they never tire of claiming their malady really is a virus"

    https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ipso-has-upheld-one-out-of-more-than-8000-discrimination-complaints-but-its-chairman-says-a-balance-has-to-be-struck/
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    Rod Liddle in the Times: "Always fatigued — yet they never tire of claiming their malady really is a virus"

    The language is a bit unclear but my interpretation is that the intended meaning is 'prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's physical or mental illness of any type' rather than 'prejudicial or pejorative reference [...] to any physical or mental illness or disability' (although...
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    NICE guideline review: A list of appointees to the ME/CFS Guideline Committee has now been published

    Some notes on the chapter authored by Jennifer McIntosh in the Manual of Dietetic practice 5th ed: 7.6.5 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Myalgic Encephalomyelitis under s.7.6 Neurological disorders. WHO classes as neurological disorder. Prevalence: 0.2-0.4% (DoH 2002, White et al 2007) Four times...
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    NICE guideline review: A list of appointees to the ME/CFS Guideline Committee has now been published

    Yes - see post #777. Wrt amitriptyline, the case study only has:
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    NICE guideline review: A list of appointees to the ME/CFS Guideline Committee has now been published

    Some notes on the case study coauthored by Jennifer McIntosh: Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119163411.ch20 The case study is coauthored with Caroline Foster. An answers chapter (16) is based on an earlier chapter presenting...
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    NICE guideline review: A list of appointees to the ME/CFS Guideline Committee has now been published

    An updated membership list was published today which confirms Caroline Kingdon and announces dietician appointment, Jennifer McIntosh. The community paediatric nurse is apparently still yet to be appointed. Dietitian: Jennifer McIntosh Senior Specialist Dietician Mill Lodge CAMHS, Leeds and...
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    MUS services in UK and other MUS related issues

    Would it be worth broadening the scope of this thread in the OP and/or title to include allied concept terms (such as PPS), upcoming and past courses, presentations, other MUS etc-related documents, and member experiences? With respect to integrated IAPT, from April 2018 'all clinical...
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    NICE guidelines: topic experts and the behind the scenes

    https://www.nice.org.uk/Media/Default/About/Who-we-are/Policies-and-procedures/recruitment-selection-to-advisory-bodies-policy.pdf Did anyone retain a copy of the recruitment packs?
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    NICE guidelines: topic experts and the behind the scenes

    The page links to a list of NICE guidelines for conditions that are managed under the IAPT programme, including 'CFS/ME'. Nothing suggests to me from this that the NICE ME/CFS guideline review is connected in any official sense to IAPT.
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    UK: Social prescribing on the NHS (and possible implications for ME/CFS services)

    Universal Personalised Care: Implementing the Comprehensive Model NHS England 31 January 2019
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    UK: Social prescribing on the NHS (and possible implications for ME/CFS services)

    Westminster think tank Reform made a similar claim re half of GP appointments in April 2016 report, Who cares? The future of general practice:
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    UK: Social prescribing on the NHS (and possible implications for ME/CFS services)

    Army of workers to support family doctors NHS England: News 28 Jan 2019 A bit more from Prof Stokes-Lampard: Matt Hancock:
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    UK: Social prescribing on the NHS (and possible implications for ME/CFS services)

    This thread has been created by merging several threads on social prescribing BBC News: More 'social prescribers' to ease pressure on GPs. 28.01.19 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46999922
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