**Trigger Warning: Upsetting content**
Today, on the 22nd July 2025, the long awaited DHSC Delivery Plan for ME/CFS has been published. You can read the government press release about the plan here, though we are still awaiting the online release of the final publication.
ITV News, alongside numerous other mainstream media outlets have been reporting this news.
Extracts: ITV News – Government pledges to ‘transform care’ for people with ME
The Government has pledged to give hundreds of thousands of people living with chronic fatigue syndrome “improved care closer to home” as it acknowledged that many patients with the condition “struggle” to get appropriate care.
The Department of Health and Social Care said it is “committed to changing attitudes and transforming care” for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) as it prepared to publish a new plan to improve care for people with the condition.
Dr Charles Shepherd, honorary medical advisor and trustee at the ME Association, said: “Whilst today’s announcement is an important step forward in helping to improve the quality of life of people with ME/CFS, the Government must now go much further to improve their medical care and management and help to fund much needed biomedical research into cause and treatment.”
Further media coverage
- (Paywalled) The Times: My daughter died from ME. This new plan fails her and others like her | July 22, 2025
- (Paywalled) The Times: Doctors to be trained on ME in NHS plan to transform care | July 22, 2025
- The Independent: ME care reforms promised after woman’s tragic death | July 22, 2025
- Hello Rayo: Government pledges ‘improved care closer to home' for people with ME | July 22, 2025
- Channel 4 News: ‘ME Delivery Plan: will it make a difference? | July 22, 2025
- Times Radio covers the ME/CFS Delivery Plan (thank you Broken Battery)
- Pulse: GPs to support delivery of ME/CFS care under new NHS plan | July 22, 2025
- Healthcare Management: NHS professionals to be trained on ME and chronic fatigue syndrome | July 22, 2025
- Medscape: After a Long Delay, ME/CFS Strategy Finally Arrives | July 23, 2025