Tag Archives: Forward ME Group

ME charity responses to NICE consultation

Here are links to charities’ responses to the 4 questions on NICE’s proposal not to review the Guidelines for CFS/ME   25% ME Group Action for ME Forward ME Hope 4 ME & Fibro Northern Ireland Invest in ME Local … Continue reading

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GP education & training discussed at Forward ME meeting 7 Feb 2017

The Minutes of the Forward ME Group Meeting held in the Television Interview Room at the House of Lords on Tuesday 7 February 2017, have been posted on the Forward ME website. The guest speaker was Professor Ian Curran Assistant Director … Continue reading

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Forward ME interviews rep from Maximus

The Minutes of the Forward ME Meeting held in the Television Interview Room,  House of Lords, Tuesday on 24 February 2015 contains an interview with Sue Marsh, newly appointed Head of Customer Experience at Maximus, one of the companies providing health assessments for … Continue reading

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NICE corrects classification of CFS/ME

From Tymes Trust: Tyme Trust discovered over the parliamentary recess that NICE had listed the CFS/ME Guideline under mental health. We immediately alerted Patron the Countess of Mar, of whose Forward-ME  group we are a member. NICE’s listing could already have … Continue reading

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NICE admits CFS/ME guideline does not meet the need

On June 25th 2014  the Forward ME Group met with Prof Mark Baker, Director of the Centre for Clinical Practice at the  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). From  the minutes: Professor Mark Baker, NICE 2.1 The Chairman … Continue reading

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A dozen different diseases? Prof Stephen Holgate calls for radical change in ME/CFS research

ME/CFS probably isn’t one disease, or even a few different ones – but could be as many as fifteen. So said Professor Stephen Holgate, Chair of the UK Research Collaborative (CMRC), when he addressed the Forward ME Group in the … Continue reading

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