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This incident reminds me of complaints made in early 2005 concerning the wording of two job vacancy advertisements for therapists for two NHS CFS services.
The first, a vacancy for a Trainee Clinical Fatigue Therapist, Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust; the second for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Management, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust.
Complaints about the wording of these job vacancy ads were lodged by patient org reps (via Chris Clark, AfME's then CE and at that time, Convener of the since disbanded, M.E. Alliance), but also by individuals.
Formal apologies were issued by Dr Fred Nye (at the time, Clinical Champion, Liverpool ME/CFS Clinical Network Co-ordinating Centre) and NHS officials and the Liverpool job vacancy ad was withdrawn.
But concerns about the culture within these clinics that was evident in the framing of these job vacancies and the implications for patients referred to these services remained.
I won't post the text of the job vacancies, here, but I have a copy, here, on Twitlonger, for those not familiar with this 2005 issue.
These job ads are chilling, contain useful material for quoting from, and are worth a skim.
Archived material from January 2005: Job vacancies: CFS Therapists: NHS CFS services:
http://tl.gd/n_1s279rl
A copy of the apology issued by Dr Fred Nye on behalf of Liverpool ME/CFS Clinical Network Co-ordinating Centre can be found towards the bottom of this page, on M.E. Support-Norfolk site, under the heading:
"The Liverpool ME/CFS service: an apology":
http://www.sayer.abel.co.uk/MESNORFOLK/Letter_To_Dr_Nye.html
The first, a vacancy for a Trainee Clinical Fatigue Therapist, Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust; the second for a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Management, Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust.
Complaints about the wording of these job vacancy ads were lodged by patient org reps (via Chris Clark, AfME's then CE and at that time, Convener of the since disbanded, M.E. Alliance), but also by individuals.
Formal apologies were issued by Dr Fred Nye (at the time, Clinical Champion, Liverpool ME/CFS Clinical Network Co-ordinating Centre) and NHS officials and the Liverpool job vacancy ad was withdrawn.
But concerns about the culture within these clinics that was evident in the framing of these job vacancies and the implications for patients referred to these services remained.
I won't post the text of the job vacancies, here, but I have a copy, here, on Twitlonger, for those not familiar with this 2005 issue.
These job ads are chilling, contain useful material for quoting from, and are worth a skim.
Archived material from January 2005: Job vacancies: CFS Therapists: NHS CFS services:
http://tl.gd/n_1s279rl
A copy of the apology issued by Dr Fred Nye on behalf of Liverpool ME/CFS Clinical Network Co-ordinating Centre can be found towards the bottom of this page, on M.E. Support-Norfolk site, under the heading:
"The Liverpool ME/CFS service: an apology":
http://www.sayer.abel.co.uk/MESNORFOLK/Letter_To_Dr_Nye.html