🌟Patients' Charter for ME/CFS/PVFS🌟
🌟1st aim: for patients to put their signature for their needs to the Roundtable
It will be physically & electronically sent to NICE
Idea: to share on the 18th October to clearly state what we deserve?
🌟2nd Aim: Charter to be available to anyone who needs it (spoon saver).
It has been collectively written to help give a concise statement of the strong, supportive foundation for the medical care we deserve.
🌟3rd Aim: collaboratively create a Charter for #LongCovid #PVFS (Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome) is a term applicable to ME - yet this can also include #LongCovid #LongCovid community we need your help on this too - please sign🙏
There are many overlaps!
The Charter aims to be concise for impact.
Yet there is much more to say - an extended commentary is in the making
DMs welcome
🌟We have about a 2 week window (until 11th October) to collect signatures and for it to be sent & given time to be seen by NICE.
🌟The Charter can also be shared and RT on the day of the Roundtable (18th October) as a way to make our needs heard
If there is media about ME 'militants' 'wars' (@Telegraph) then we can maybe assume the psychiatrists are worried about @NICEComms Guidelines.
It was a coordinated PR strategy used c.20yrs ago via the Science Media Centre when they threw a media pity party for themselves.
Let's look at Dr Michael Fitzpatrick:
-Part of the RCP network
-Connected to many of the orgs the group has set up:Sense about Science; Science Media Centre; Spiked; Institute of Ideas. Most funded by major biotech & pharmaceutical companies
Fitzpatrick cont
-Member of the Revolutionary Communist Party for most of his adult life (which wanted to turn the UK into a Trotskyist state) (whose the militant?)
-Writer for Living Marxism
- Holds & advocates the view that ME is a psychiatric