campaigner launches hospital charter for patients
Tuesday 29 October is an auspicious day for the myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) community. Crucially, it marks three years to the day the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)…
campaign to rebuild the NHS takes off
Campaign group EveryDoctor is calling for MPs to step up to fix the NHS. The group has built a manifesto with the input of hundreds of doctors. This blueprint spells…
DWP NHS co-working plans will see job advisors in hospitals
New articles in the Times and the Guardian look to be little more than a cut and paste job from a government press release. What were both servile client media lapdogs…
DWP WorkWell could be a disaster for ME/CFS and long Covid
A joint Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) work programme – WorkWell – likely spells more bad news and harm to people…
Labour’s cabinet takes £500k from private healthcare lobbyists
Lobbyists, hedge funds, and private equity firms connected to the private healthcare sector have funnelled more than half a million pounds to the new Labour Party cabinet since 2023. In…
research featured in a campaign to shake it up
A new campaign seeks to shake up the dire state of funding for biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). In time for ME Awareness Day on 12 May, a volunteer…