APPG Report: Inform your MP about the key issues relating to ME/CFS!.
The ME Association (MEA).  This is the official report from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ME that contains key recommendations aimed at increasing research investment and discovery, improving health and social care, and enhancing the lives of people with ME/CFS. It was launched at an official reception with the Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid in May 2022.
 
Last year, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) launched an important report - Rethinking ME- and this highlighted vital recommendations to help people with ME receive good quality health and social care. These included the implementation of the 2021 NICE Clinical Guideline on ME/CFS and creating strategies to transform the approach towards ME in health, welfare, social care, research, and education. 
 
Members of the APPG on ME, the former Health Secretary Sajid Javid, and Nicki Strong (Trustee) of the ME Association attended the report’s launch at the Houses of Parliament in May.  The ME Association understands the importance of this report and we believe it will help to shape the future for people with ME and their families.  
 
The Rethinking ME 37 page report is available to download from the MEA’s website.  Plus also available is a template letter to help you write to your local MP .
 
 
Previous ‘Rethinking ME’ Information
 
Sajid Javid ‘Rethinking ME’ after young relative’s battles
1/6/2022
The Times:  Sajid Javid ‘Rethinking ME’ after young relative’s battles. 
A report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
 
"Rethinking ME" at APPG on ME meeting, Wednesday 25 May
19/5/2022
Remind your MP to attend the launch of "Rethinking ME" with Sajid Javid, MP for Bromsgrove, and Health and Social Care Secretary.
 
 
 The new Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/ chronic fatigue syndrome: diagnosis and management. NICE guideline [NG206] was published in October 2021.  See from our website -
 
NICE ME/CFS: new Guideline (New downloadable Publications).
19/1/2022
 
NICE ME/CFS: new Guideline (Reactions).
25/11/2021
 
NICE ME/CFS: new Guideline now Published
29/10/2021


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Our first Afternoon Café Meeting for this year will be from 2.00 - 3.30 pm, on Wednesday 8 March, in the Next Café, above the Next store at the Elgar Retail Park, Blackpole, Worcester, WR3 8HP (There is a lift and escalator in the store, plus plenty of parking, including blue badge spaces near the main entrance.)  
 
All people with M.E., CFS, FMS, and their carers, friends and relatives, are welcome at all Worcestershire M.E. Social Group gatherings - please join us whenever it suits you.
 
Future dates for this year will also be on the 2nd Wednesday of each month, at the Next Café, -
          8 March;
          12 April; 
          10 May; 
          14 June; 
          12 July; 
            9 August; 
          13 September;  
          11 October; 
            8 November; 
          13 December.
 
Before Covid, we had lunches and afternoon café meetings at locations throughout the county.  Concerning future ME Social Group lunches, and further afternoon social gatherings, it has been a case of when to start again after the pandemic lockdowns.  Plus, as we don’t have a membership, and the main contact is via the website, these meetings need to be planned well ahead.  Also, previously the lunches were organised by our friend Warwick Davis, who sadly passed away in July 2021.  Warwick Davis was the Worcestershire ME Support Group’s Vice Chairman and Area Contact for Hagley, and helped with the organisation of the support group’s meetings in Kidderminster.  Many people will also have met Warwick when he organised the Social Group’s Lunches across the county for many years.
 
Future social group lunches/teas could be held at garden centres (etc) in various parts of Worcestershire - where would you like to meet, and could you help? Please discuss this at our afternoon café meetings, or let us know by completing our form.
 
Venues for previous lunches and afternoon social gatherings are listed on our meetings webpage, giving you an idea of locations where we have previously met.   Information will be on the website when these meetings are happening again, and I hope you will then be able to join us for a bite to eat, or just a cuppa and chat.
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The Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Herefordshire & Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust webpage has recently been updated. 
 
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).  
We are a specialist part-time service that delivers support and treatment to people with ME/CFS within community settings across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
 
To contact the service:
Address: Malvern Community Hospital 185 Worcester Road, Malvern, WR14 1EX
Reception phone number: 01684 612671 (an answerphone is available).
Email: whcnhs.chronicfatigue@nhs.net

This local NHS ME/CFS webpage includes sections on -
About the service
How to refer into the service
What we do
General information
Links and Resources
Following Discharge (includes - Recovery And Management (RaM) group)
Support for families and carers
Carers’ Assessment
 
The new Myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/ chronic fatigue syndrome: diagnosis and management. NICE guideline [NG206] was published in October 2021.
 
See also from our website -
 
NICE ME/CFS: new Guideline (New downloadable Publications).
19/1/2022
 
NICE ME/CFS: new Guideline (Reactions).
25/11/2021
 
NICE ME/CFS: new Guideline now Published
29/10/2021

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