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What would help people with ME get into politics?
New Statesman article, by David Skuzbee, 11 August 2016: Don’t forget the most under-represented group in our democracy – disabled people Roughly 16 per cent of working age adults are living with a limiting long-term illness, impairment, or disability, but … Continue reading
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Tagged David Skuzbee, disability, Lucy Seymour-Smith, Mathy Selvakumaran, New Statesman, Paul Maynard, politics
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The DWP thinks that work will make me well
New Statesman article by Rosie Fletcher (person with ME) 18 January 2016: The DWP thinks that work will make me well – but it doesn’t work like that: Iain Duncan Smith wants sick and disabled people like me to work ourselves better. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Work and Pensions, DWP, Iain Duncan Smith MP, New Statesman, Rosie Fletcher
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To future GPs – psychosomatic should not be the default suspicion re ME/CFS
Time to swot up on chronic fatigue – Future general practitioners need to be made aware that “psychosomatic” should not be the default suspicion, by Michael Brooks in the New Statesman, Nov 12 2015 Around 250,000 people in the UK suffer from … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, GET, Graded exercied, graded exercise therapy, ME Association, Michael Brooks, New Statesman, PACE trial, psychosomatic, rituximab
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