Our Strategy

We use a range of strategies to ensure the issues that are important to people with ME are addressed.  They include:

• talking with NHS and social care organisations locally and nationally to improve the treatment and care for people with ME.

• working with professional associations and organisations concerned with standards and best practice to ensure the quality of care received by people with ME.

• talking with Ministers, politicians and civil servants to raise key issues and influence policy appropriately.

• responding to relevant consultations from Government and others.

• forming alliances with other organisations to push for change. WAMES is a member of the Long term Conditions Alliance Cymru and the Wales Neurological Alliance.  Also the South West Wales Neurological Alliance (SWWNA) and the South Gwynedd Long Term Conditions Alliance (SGLTCA).

• listening to people with ME to bring their experiences to the attention of decision makers, in order to illustrate campaign messages as powerfully as possible.

• conducting surveys of people with ME, service providers etc. to get information to support our campaigns.

• Informing the media.