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Legal challenge to NICE ME/CFS Guideline delay
Legal challenge to NICE ‘pause in publication’ On the 1st October a legal action was launched against NICE, claiming the failure to publish the final guideline for ME/CFS was unlawful – that NICE failed to follow it’s own rules … Continue reading
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Tagged legal challenge, NICE guideline ME/CFS, Steve Topple, Valerie Eliot Smith
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Functional capacity evaluation in CFS
Abstract Background: Objective measurements of function often form the basis for legal decisions about whether a patient is fit for return to work, or conversely, entitled to disability compensation. The functional capacity evaluation (FCE) is regarded as the gold standard for measuring work capacity … Continue reading
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Tagged disability assessments, FCE, functional capacity evaluation, legal challenge, maximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing
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Legal challenge to PIP to go ahead
The High Court has granted permission for a full hearing of the judicial review challenge to the government’s introduction of more stringent qualifying criteria for mobility benefit for the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) scheme. Two law firms, Public Law … Continue reading
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Tagged Disability Living Allowance, DLA, judicial review, legal challenge, Personal Independence Payment, PIP, Public Law Solicitors, Steven Sumpter
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