We have now met with 4 of the service development leads in Wales who are working on plans to introduce integrated services for ME/CFS and Long Covid. Each of the 7 Health Boards in Wales received additional government funding to provide an integrated specialist service in their region. We have also met with the service lead from Pontypridd which was the first service in Wales to integrate. We will be contacting the remaining 2 regions in the New Year and hope to bring all 7 leads together – potentially with leads from England and Scotland – to share best practice and prioritise domiciliary care for the worst affected. We have offered help to 5 ICBs in England, that have initiated service reviews and approved service integrations, and aim to work with more next year. With Scotland announcing last week that it is also funding integrated specialist services the trend is established, and will hopefully lead to more people in the UK having access to specialist services that have adopted the NICE Guideline's clinical recommendations.
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