AndyPR
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ines-fairness-benefits/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_fbPrime Minister May has struck out early and hard for mental health. A key part of her shared society speech in January was what she called the burning injustice of mental illness. Powerful stuff. So the appearance of a set of regulations last week that have the effect of making it more difficult for people with non-physical disability to benefit fully from Personal Independence Payments (Pips) is curious.
Conditions that aren't visible, can't be easily measured and that fluctuate – mental illness and newly recognised disorders like ME and fibromyalgia – struggle for parity of public, professional and political esteem alongside obvious, quantifiable, unremitting disease and disability.
Article is written by Andrew Murrison, Conservative MP and former NHS consultant. As it's quite a good article in terms of treating ME seriously it could be worth contacting him to thank him, his details are here http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/dr-andrew-murrison/1466
ETA: He also has a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/andrew.murrison/
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