charles shepherd
Senior Member
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Early Day Motion (271) on the NICE guideline tabled by Stephen Timms MP:
That this house welcomes NICE’s consultation with patients and their representatives on whether to review its clinical guidelines on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME (CG53);
notes that ME is a serious, debilitating, chronic health condition affecting about 250,000 people in the UK,
and is concerned that about half of the patients asked in a number of surveys reported adverse effects on their health from Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) which is recommended by NICE;
notes recent biomedical research indicating an abnormal physiological response to exercise in ME patients,
and that the US Centre for Disease Control no longer recommends GET for ME;
notes also the unanimous call from consultation stakeholders, and a petition of 15,180 patients, for NICE to update its guidelines on ME;
and urges NICE to review CG53 and to consider patient experience and recent international scientific evidence in its assessment of the merits of GET for treating ME.
Please envourage other MPs to sign this EDM
More info on EDMs:
Early Day Motions (EDMs) are formal motions submitted for debate in the House of Commons. However, very few are actually debated. EDMs allow MPs to draw attention to an event or cause. MPs register their support by signing individual motions.
http://www.parliament.uk/edm
Previous EDM on ME/CFS - tabled by Ian Swales MP in October 2010:
http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2011/09/first-early-day-motion-of-the-new-parliament-on-me/
Stephen Timms MP:
http://www.stephentimms.org.uk
That this house welcomes NICE’s consultation with patients and their representatives on whether to review its clinical guidelines on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME (CG53);
notes that ME is a serious, debilitating, chronic health condition affecting about 250,000 people in the UK,
and is concerned that about half of the patients asked in a number of surveys reported adverse effects on their health from Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) which is recommended by NICE;
notes recent biomedical research indicating an abnormal physiological response to exercise in ME patients,
and that the US Centre for Disease Control no longer recommends GET for ME;
notes also the unanimous call from consultation stakeholders, and a petition of 15,180 patients, for NICE to update its guidelines on ME;
and urges NICE to review CG53 and to consider patient experience and recent international scientific evidence in its assessment of the merits of GET for treating ME.
Please envourage other MPs to sign this EDM
More info on EDMs:
Early Day Motions (EDMs) are formal motions submitted for debate in the House of Commons. However, very few are actually debated. EDMs allow MPs to draw attention to an event or cause. MPs register their support by signing individual motions.
http://www.parliament.uk/edm
Previous EDM on ME/CFS - tabled by Ian Swales MP in October 2010:
http://www.meassociation.org.uk/2011/09/first-early-day-motion-of-the-new-parliament-on-me/
Stephen Timms MP:
http://www.stephentimms.org.uk
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