Only if you are expecting the UK medical establishment to accept research and other investigations done outside the UK. So far they've been appallingly jingoistic about anything useful produced outside their own very limited circle.
I'd like to know on what grounds they can continue to studiously ignore foreign research findings.
I don't think it is jingoism that prevents the adoption of helpful ME/CFS treatments in the NHS, but rather the monolithic, bureaucratic and governmental nature of the National Health Service. In the US health care setup, free market forces encourage individual doctors to offer treatments that can help a subset of patients (because if a doctor gets a good reputation in terms of ameliorating ME/CFS symptoms, patients will beat a path to his door). One of the intrinsic values of a free market force environment is the
voting with your feet aspect which it automatically encompasses.
With the monolithic, bureaucratic and governmental NHS, as far as I am aware, there aren't any internal structures that encourage individual doctors or clinics to experiment with treatments that might help a subset of patients. Rather, you get governmental organizations like NICE which impose monolithic clinical practice guidelines on the entire NHS, which to me seem to reduce clinical freedom, and discourage individual doctors or clinics from trying out possibly helpful treatments.
There are secret plans to privatize operational aspects of the NHS in the future. Though these are viewed with great suspicion by a lot of the public, because people fear they will erode the ideals of socialized medicine, and lead to a more US-type medical system where the quality the medical care you receive may depend on your income. Though it's interesting that the US is currently moving a bit towards socialized medicine, and the UK is planning to move towards some privatization of its health care.
I don't know the details of the NHS privatization plans, but I hope that they might somehow harness the positive aspects of free market forces, which should encourage clinical freedom, without introducing the negative aspects of privatized health, such inferior health care for those unemployed or on low income. I would like to see careful thought going into this NHS privatization, such that it encourages the advancement of medical treatment.
On the medical research side, starting in the early 1980s, the UK did all the original ground work on the enteroviral theory of ME/CFS. It is a shame that this was not replicated in the US until very much later, with the excellent work of Dr John Chia, in the mid 2000s. And it is a
tragedy that Chia's work, which replicated and brought forward the early British enteroviral findings, has not be further investigated for a decade now, either in the US or anywhere else.