{"id":1338,"date":"2012-04-26T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T12:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2012-05-06T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:37:11","slug":"me-still-misunderstood-by-health-professionals-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-still-misunderstood-by-health-professionals-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister talks about ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 25th April a number of AMs asked questions about services for ME, highlighting the difficulties patients have in finding healthcare from knowledgeable professionals in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Minister Lesley Griffiths replied:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a lot of misunderstanding and more needs to be done to improve the understanding amongst the public and medical staff.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of work has already been done to improve services, such as providing e-service packages and establishing a task and finish group to investigate the problem.<\/li>\n<li>She would consult with the LHBs about setting up a national clinic.<\/li>\n<li>Her staff would be writing to LHBs to get an update on how they are developing services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Health Minister's questions on ME 25 April 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/democracylive\/hi\/wales\/newsid_9714000\/9714633.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Health Minister&#8217;s questions on ME services 25 April 2012<\/a>\u00a0 (Questions about ME begin at 5mins 42 secs into the videoclip.)<\/p>\n<p>NB WAMES has written to the Health Minister asking for more information about the e-learning package she mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25th April a number of AMs asked questions about services for ME, highlighting the difficulties patients have in finding healthcare from knowledgeable professionals in Wales. The Health Minister Lesley Griffiths replied: There is a lot of misunderstanding and more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/me-still-misunderstood-by-health-professionals-in-wales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,83,98,99],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-am","tag-health-minister","tag-wag","tag-welsh-assembly-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-lA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}