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Blog posts on the blog called Healthcare Hubris Spotlight on ME/CFS: Who is lobbying whom? by Jo Hunt part 1 part 2 Covers some of the interactions between Wessely, Aylward and White and the DWP in the early 1990's based on archive material obtained using FOI by Valerie Eliot Smith. Link to...

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.729.2487&rep=rep1&type=pdf Too big to upload the PDF

"Treatment harms to patients with ME/CFS" Quote: - Despite evidence of physiological and cellular abnormalities in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), the dominant therapeutic approach has been cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET)...

Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261018316649120

I have this week received these from the DWP. I've had a quick look through. The two things that strike me are that they confirm Aylward continued on the TSC when he left the DWP, despite his myriad COIs, and a briefing from AfME which is of some interest. I'll get more when I can. I'm not...

The connections between government and the insurance business in their joint project to reduce eligibility for sickness benefits. https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/s36_04rutherford.pdf " In November 2001 a conference assembled at Woodstock, near Oxford. Its subject was ‘Malingering...