Survey launch (and radio interview) to support Oxfordshire campaign for better children’s ME/CFS services | 31 October 2013
OMEGA action group invites wide participation in their survey of paediatric services
Month: October 2013
Countess of Mar group condemn NICE plan to do nothing with ME/CFS Guideline review | 28 October 2013
The Countess: leading fight against NICE plan to put ME/CFS Guideline review on static list
Delay in roll-out of government’s Welfare Reform programme | BBC News | 26 October 2013
Work and pensions minister Mike Penning: process is “taking longer than expected”.
‘At last: recognition for ME’ | Choice magazine | November 2013
Contains interviews with MEA medical adviser Dr Charles Shepherd and ME sufferer Julia Glenn
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 25 October 2013
Dr Esther Crawley in Arch of Dis in Childhood & Taiwanese study on chronic bladder inflammation
MEA opposes plan to put review of NICE ME/CFS Guideline on hold | 23 October 2013
We say NICE is wrong to put review on its static list.
Over 150,000 complain against Atos ‘fit for work’ tests | Welfare News Service | 18 October 2013
Atos is the company that carries out the ‘fit for work’ tests required when people claim ESA
New service for ME is ‘godsend’ | Dunstable Today | 21 October 2013
Local newspaper report about the recently set-up Bedfordshire ME/CFS service.
Summary of the Newry & Mourne ME/Fibromyalgia Support Group NHS Conference | 20 March 2012
With thanks to Horace Reid for circulating this trailer for the main DVD yesterday.
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts and other items | 18 October 2013
Just one item today – an online editorial published by journal of the International Assn for CFS/ME
Dr Nigel Speight to speak at Edinburgh MESH Open Meeting | Saturday, October 19
Edinburgh MESH to host open meeting for popular ME/CFS paediatrician Dr Nigel Speight
David Cameron: Fit-for-work benefits tests must improve | BBC News | 16 October 2013
Dennis Skinner MP: “Abolish this cruel, heartless monster called Atos – get rid of it”
‘Telling GPs the Truth about ME’ | help us to get second phase off the ground | 15 October 2013
This part of the campaign closes at midday on Friday, October 25 – please give us your support
Confidential patient details lost in major security breach at Sutton Hospital | Sutton Guardian | 10 October 2013
Filing cabinet went missing after the building was vacated by another organisation, claims newspaper
UK ME/CFS Research Collaborative executive board | summary of meeting held on 7 October 2013
Present – nine board members, including the MEA’s Dr Charles Shepherd, and two observers.
Sue Pemberton to speak at Sheffield ME Group annual conference | 16 October 2013
Sue is one of the country’s Occupational Therapy gurus on the subject of ME/CFS.
TGI Friday! Our weekly round-up of recently published research abstracts | 11 October 2013
One psychiatric lit review, a study on post-exertional malaise and a lateral leap into POTS.
Work4ME announce workshop dates for their online office Base + Self Management Champion of the Year | 10 October 2013
Or how a specially licensed online office can help people with long-term health conditions find work
Winners in the MEA Summer Prize Draw | 8 October 2013
Our annual draw – with £500 in cash prizes waiting to be sent out!
Run for the ME Association in the BUPA London 10k on 25 May 2014
We have 13 places for runners prepared to commit to the MEA. Organisers want Buckingham Palace as backdrop to the start and finish