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The Guardian today carries a piece that includes: Radical changes are needed because the NHS will not be able to train enough homegrown GPs or recruit the numbers needed from overseas to surmount the growing shortfall, said Richard Murray, chief executive of the King’s Fund. “We can’t GP our...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grieving-parents-forced-hire-detective-13977167

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6691259/Family-demand-hospital-wide-cervical-cancer-inquiry-nurse-died-doctors-failed-spot-it.html

Our local NHS provider and lead commissioner have stated they will be going through a 'Benchmarking' exercise... So I thought I would do a little digging taking into account the current parlous state of NHS Services for ME and CFS... any thoughts would be welcome ...

This thread has been formed by merging several threads This discussion has been split from this thread Edit November 2024, this thread has been renamed to reflect changes in areas served. UK campaign for better ME services in Suffolk and Norfolk Exactly DT, in 2009, we convincingly proved...

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47013914

People often wonder why we don't have many whistleblowers who come forward about bad treatments and practices in the UK. Here's what recently happened to a Dr who did try to whistleblow. He got threatened with an unpayable legal bill if he did not win his case...

Don't know who this flyer is being given/sent to: http://www.ruh.nhs.uk/patients/services/clinical_depts/paediatric_cfs_me/documents/PCFS005_PCFSME_Research_Flyer.pdf

Interview in the Guardian. full article here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/12/i-was-preety-much-mute-at-school-the-bake-offs-kim-joy

Moderator note This post has been copied from this thread and subsequent posts moved across. I think it was the BACME response to NICE that said only 8,000 ME patients use the NHS clinics. That's only 3.2% of the estimated 250,000 ME patients nationwide (or 6.4% if the number was actually only...

https://www.nhs.uk/video/Pages/ms-cfs-chronicpain-fibromyalgia.aspx Found this on the NHS website. I wondered whether anyone knew how this can be justified and where it came from? I also think there should be some lobbying as part of the NICE guideline review to raise this as an issue along...

(Note - this post was actually made on 4 Jul 2022) Note from the moderation team: This thread is for posts about ME/CFS services in the United Kingdom generally. If you have comments about specific services, please post on the relevant service thread (listed below or make a new thread). We...

RSM The NHS at 70 Podcast: Episode 8: Prof Sir Simon Wessely, President of the RSM - The Challenges for Mental Health In this episode, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Professor of Psychiatry & Past President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, discusses the changing attitude towards...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nhs-demands-legal-costs-from-failed-homeopathy-challenge-sm80w8kjp (Soft paywall).

As you may recall Suffolk NHS have begun to commission care from Dr Nacul (who leads the ME Biobank team at LSHTM) but commissioners from Norfolk and Waveney could not agree on a way forward. Norfolk patients are understandably unhappy about this. There is an article in today's Eastern Daily...

https://www.economist.com/britain/2018/06/30/the-three-myths-of-the-nhs

Another article by Steve Topple using ME and PACE as illustrative of current government policy, https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2018/06/18/esther-mcvey-and-her-department-are-now-totally-out-of-control/

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet. Just published with the topic 'Mental Health'. (Emphasis added). https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/the-improving-access-to-psychological-therapies-manual/

@Tom Kindlon posted a link to the following on fb (sorry but I've l lost without trace Tom's original fb post), but thought I'd capture this here, seeing as the Royal Liverpool have been deleting comments people made. Captured this too late for those deleted comments, but in case any more get...