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https://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controversial-professor-to-investigate-overdiagnosis-of-mental-health-and-neurodivergence-for-labour Labour is launching a review to decide whether some mental health and neurodivergence issues are being overdiagnosed. The Health Service Journal (HSJ)...

https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/83/3/248 Authors: Richard A Kanaan, David Armstrong, Simon C Wessely Abstract Objective The term ‘functional’ has a distinguished history, embodying a number of physiological concepts, but has increasingly come to mean ‘hysterical’. The DSM-V working group proposes...

COVID-19-related sickness absence among 4,721 NHS staff in England and its relation with long COVID symptoms: findings from NHS CHECK BACKGROUND Long COVID (LC) occurs when COVID-19 symptoms continue for 12+ weeks after the onset of infection. LC may have several impacts, including sickness...

Abstract Longitudinal studies have shown that physical illness attributions are associated with poor prognosis in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Speculation exists over whether such attributions influence treatment outcome. This study reports the effect of illness beliefs on outcome in a...

nb also a letter from Charles Shepherd. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1882994/ eta: I think it was in response to this Follow up of patients presenting with fatigue to an infectious diseases clinic, 1992, Sharpe et al. | Science for ME

Abstract Background. Fatigue and psychiatric symptoms are common in the community, but their association and outcome are sparsely studied. Method. A total of 1177 patients were recruited from UK primary care on attending their general practitioner. Fatigue and psychiatric disorder was measured...

David J Black: Is anyone listening? Does anyone care? | Scottish Legal News

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry Second edition published 2012 https://academic.oup.com/book/24770 Chapter 5.2.7 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Michael Sharpe and Simon Wessely https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199696758.003.0133 Abstract (paragraph breaks added) Chronic fatigue syndrome is...

Anomalies in the review process and interpretation of the evidence in the NICE guideline for chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis Peter White, Susan Abbey, Brian Angus, Harriet A Ball, Dedra S Buchwald, Christine Burness, Alan J Carson, Trudie Chalder, Daniel J Clauw, Jan...

There's an open letter going to SOM about the blocking of people with ME & Long Covid. Anyone can sign it Form https://forms.gle/RnxxbCMJPKqPNrnF7 Details are on Kirstie Sivapalan twitter

one bit that might be of interest (see pic) on functional neurological symptoms full recordings here: Full house at 10th edition of IoPPN Research Festival - King's College London (kcl.ac.uk) (I imagine that Wesselys clownlike intro was rather an embarrassment).

Counselling: more harm than good? | Daily Mail Online

"David J Black explores the dangers of orthodoxy in the first in a four-part medico-legal series. “Orthodoxy” wrote Bertrand Russell “is the death of intelligence”. Before placing this in a medico-legal context with specific reference to the 2009 case Fraser and another v The National Institute...

The Centre Director for UK Dementia Research Institute at King’s was first to deliver a lecture as part of the 2022/23 IoPPN Inaugural Lecture Series. lecture (32 mins) available at link...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4MM9sdpls25hJ3NbVNltgdn/what-does-a-mysterious-school-illness-tell-us-about-our-anxieties

Some threads have been merged to create this news thread The future of the NHS: no longer the envy of the world? Picked up from social media. Article in the Lancet London School of Economics have this project with an independent commission looking to identify big challenges faced by the NHS...

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...

Koa Health | Landmark trial of NHS staff by King’s College London reveals promising solution to improve mental health also here Landmark trial of NHS staff reveals promising solution to improve mental health (kcl.ac.uk) paper here Multicentre, England-wide randomised controlled trial of the...

Abstract Service in the Persian Gulf in 1991 is associated with increased reporting of symptoms and distress in a proportion of those who served there. Yet despite clear evidence of an increase in symptom burden and a decrease in well being, exhaustive clinical and laboratory based scientific...

Wessely was the senior author of the article & Chalder was a trial investigator. Background: Fatigue is a common symptom for which patients consult their doctors in primary care. With usual medical management the majority of patients report that their symptoms persist and become chronic. There...