{"id":24969,"date":"2020-03-18T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=24969"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T10:37:44","slug":"the-role-of-the-gp-in-caring-for-patients-with-me-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-role-of-the-gp-in-caring-for-patients-with-me-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of the GP in caring for patients with ME\/CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardiff University medical student Emilia Allwright tells us about her research project:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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In October 2019, I presented a poster for my project at the National RCGP conference. This was a wonderful opportunity to highlight ME\/CFS and hopefully lead to changes in care.<\/p><\/div>\n

As part of my medical degree, in Spring 2019, I spent 6 weeks looking at ‘The<\/strong> Role of the GP in caring for patients with ME\/CFS’<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I was touched by the response of the ME\/CFS community and so grateful to WAMES for helping me to find participants.<\/p>\n

I was able to complete 10 telephone interviews- each participant shared their personal story which provided an amazing volume of data to use.<\/p>\n

I went through each interview and identified key ideas and themes that formed my results:<\/p>\n