The Catalan Parliament, the legislative assembly for the region which includes Spain’s second largest city of Barcelona, this week accepted a proposition from its citizens with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia (FM) which could transform the way services are provided in the region to people with ME/CFS/FM and ensure fairer treatment by the medical community.
Prominent Catalonian ME/CFS/FM advocate Clare Valverde describes the the move as "the first step towards a world-first". She acknowledges The UK ME Alliance’s 2005 report Early Diagnosis: Delay Harms Health (leader author: Dr Charles Shepherd) as a heavily-quoted key reference source.
This is what she says: