NICE ME/CFS draft guidelines consultation

The draft NICE guideline is open for consultation until December 22nd 2020. Send your comments and questions to us by Monday 14 December for inclusion in the WAMES response

Contact the helpline or use the contact form on this website or email sylvia@wames.org.uk

You can read the draft guideline here

Read excerpts from the guideline here on our blog beginning with

NICE draft ME/CFS guideline says NO to graded exercise therapy cure!

This is what NICE wants to know:

We would like to hear your views on the draft recommendations presented in the guideline, and any comments you may have on the rationale and impact sections in the guideline and the evidence presented in the evidence reviews documents. We would also welcome views on the Equality Impact Assessment.

In addition to your comments below on our guideline documents, we would like to hear your views on these questions:

1.    Which areas will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement? Please say for whom and why.

2.    Would implementation of any of the draft recommendations have significant cost implications?

3.    What would help users overcome any challenges? (For example, existing practical resources or national initiatives, or examples of good practice.)