For some months, a project in Scotland has been thinking through the unimaginable about how to help people with long-term conditions like ME earn their own money without exhausting themselves …
Work4ME – the Scottish co-operative where people count more than profits| 31 August 2012 Read More »
LEFT: The cover of our latest issue of our ME Essential quarterly magazine, Copies are posted to every member of the …
Index to Frequently Asked Questions in our ‘ME Essential’ magazine | 2006-2012 Read More »
From The Independent, 29 August 2012 (story by Nina Lakhani). Atos accused of wrongly classing benefit applicants as fit for work More than 40 doctors and nurses working for major …
Paralympic sponsor engulfed by disability tests row | The Independent | 29 August 2012 Read More »
Jo Cameron-Symes leads the Kirklees Independent ME (myalgic encephalopathy) Support Group and has spoken out after the Examiner revealed how Brockholes man Oliver Schofield’s bid to become self-employed and work …
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From the Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 26 August 2012, E-published ahead of print. Is chronic fatigue syndrome the same illness as fibromyalgia: evaluating the ‘single syndrome’ hypothesis. Abbi B, Natelson …
Research, literature review | Is CFS the same as fibromyalgia? | 26 August 2012 Read More »
Trustees of the MEA work as a small, compact team and they are always hoping to bring new talent on board. The next formal opportunity comes as they approach their …
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From BBC News, 24 August 2012 (Story by Andrew Fagg). The government contractor Atos Healthcare has said it will review all the correspondence it sends to people claiming sickness benefits. …
The MEA receives regular queries about the initiative to set up a formal UK tissue and post-mortem tissue bank where muscle, gastrointestinal and nervous system tissue samples can be collected, …
ASA Adjudication on Phil Parker Group Ltd. This can also be read at the ASA website HERE. Phil Parker Group Ltd River Plate House 7–11 Finsbury Circus London EC2M 7DH …
From Pulse, a newsletter for GPs, 21 August 2012 (story by Jaimie Kaffash). The National Audit Office has called for the Government’s contract with Atos to provide medical assessments to …
NAO calls for overhaul of Atos medical assessments | Pulse | 21 August 2012 Read More »
The Department for Work and Pensions has posted a helpful description of Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) on their website. POTs – also known as Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome – is …
President Obama has informed a US-based M.E. advocate that one of his country’s leading medical research institutions will continue to encourage research into ME/CFS through two programmes that are investigating …
A presentation on studies into Severe M.E. to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ME at Westminster had been due to take place on 4 July 2012. But it …
Minutes of the AGM of the All Party Parliamentary Group on ME | 4 July 2012 Read More »
From BBC News, 17 August (story by Andrew Fagg). Auditors have found “weaknesses” in the contract between the government and Atos, the private firm paid to carry out fit-to-work medical …
Watchdog finds ‘weaknesses’ in sickness benefits system | BBC News | 17 August 2012 Read More »
From The Independent, 17 January 2013 (Story by Nina Lakhani). The controversial disability benefits contract between Paralympics sponsor Atos and the Government is too weak to ensure value for money …
From BMJ Open, 16 August 2012 (full text available). Equity of access to specialist chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) services in England (2008–2010): a national survey and cross-sectional study Simon M …
From BBC News in Somerset, 16 August 2012. A plan to merge a specialist hospital in in Bath with the Royal United Hospital has raised concerns among people who use …
Bath hospital merger plan prompts concern | BBC News (Somerset) | 16 August 2012 Read More »
From the Huddersfield Examiner, 15 August 2012. OLIVER Schofield worked for 20 years until the effects of ME ruled him medically unfit. But the Brockholes man has found himself caught …
From BBC News in Northern Ireland, 14 August 2012 Views are being sought by Stormont on people’s experience of the government’s fitness-to-work benefit assessments. Those claiming employment and support allowance, …
