MUS, PPS services and IAPT integration into NHS primary care - what's happening across the UK?
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I don't know if it's due to my condition, but I've looked several times and all I can see is "Thank you from all of us", recipient "Women's Equality Party", and I can't see any clearer message after clicking "CLICK HERE TO SIGN THIS CARD". It doesn't seem to say what for. Can anyone help?
Signed. 
Seriously..thank you.It's a problem with the way Groupcard is set up. The first comment has been used to very briefly outline the overall message (limited characters preclude a longer message). . I'm a numpty when it comes to adding photos to this site... if someone can tell me how it's done I can add a screen grab.
The text on the first message is: ""Many thanks for stating in your Manifesto that 'medically unexplained symptoms' (MUS) should not be regarded as a mental health condition. Of c. 250k UK patients with ME/CFS, about 3/4 are women. May 12 was International ME Awareness Day. WHO defines it as neurological, not MUS or biopsychosocial."
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/CALC_Liaison Faculty 201712April.pdf
10-12 May 2017
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Thursday 11 May 2017 MUS – National and International Perspectives
10:10-10:50 How to treat Bodily Distress Syndrome/functional somatic syndromes. Results from a highly specialised university clinic Professor Per Fink, Head, The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
11:30-12:00 Somatic symptom disorder Professor Michael Sharpe, Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Oxford
12:00-12:30 Risk markers for developing Functional Somatic Syndromes Professor Francis Creed, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine, Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Manchester
10-12 May 2017
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Thursday 11 May 2017 MUS – National and International Perspectives
10:10-10:50 How to treat Bodily Distress Syndrome/functional somatic syndromes. Results from a highly specialised university clinic Professor Per Fink, Head, The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
11:30-12:00 Somatic symptom disorder Professor Michael Sharpe, Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Oxford
12:00-12:30 Risk markers for developing Functional Somatic Syndromes Professor Francis Creed, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Medicine, Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Manchester
Signed.
There is a character count limit of around 257 characters for the message.
There is a character count limit of around 257 characters for the message.
To insert an image into a post, you will need to park the file online somewhere (you could use http://tinypic.com/ if you don't have a blog or website where you can upload an image to).
Then copy the URL for its location; then click the Image button in the editor (looks like a sun over mountains, to the immediate right of the Smiley button). A field will display into which you insert the URL for where the image file has been parked.
Or, make a screen grab, resize it, save the image as a .jpg or .png file and click "Upload a File" (centre button on right, next to "Post Reply").
Then copy the URL for its location; then click the Image button in the editor (looks like a sun over mountains, to the immediate right of the Smiley button). A field will display into which you insert the URL for where the image file has been parked.
Or, make a screen grab, resize it, save the image as a .jpg or .png file and click "Upload a File" (centre button on right, next to "Post Reply").
Thankyou Suzy! This is the screenshot of the WEP MUS policy statement in their manifesto here:
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.n...3495_Manifesto_2017_V4_Singles.pdf?1494600051
(Page 26).
It's worth reading more of the health policy statements such as:
"There are many different examples of gender inequalities in health care. Men are less likely to seek medical help and their life expectancy is shorter, which many researchers have attributed to toxic masculinity. Women’s symptoms and pain are too often disbelieved and are treated less effectively. Women are more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychosomatic, to be dismissed without further investigation, and even to be given sedatives rather than adequate pain relief. ""
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.n...3495_Manifesto_2017_V4_Singles.pdf?1494600051
(Page 26).
It's worth reading more of the health policy statements such as:
"There are many different examples of gender inequalities in health care. Men are less likely to seek medical help and their life expectancy is shorter, which many researchers have attributed to toxic masculinity. Women’s symptoms and pain are too often disbelieved and are treated less effectively. Women are more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychosomatic, to be dismissed without further investigation, and even to be given sedatives rather than adequate pain relief. ""
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Geesh! A new Infernal Trio: FINK
; Sharp and Creed . It's enough to drive us all to drink. Geesh! A new Infernal Trio: FINK
; Sharp and Creed . It's enough to drive us all to drink.
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Workshop 3: Current understanding, dilemmas and debates in chronic fatigue syndrome Dr Al Santhouse, Consultant in Psychological Medicine, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Anyone know anything about this doctor?
Idle thoughts of an idle fellow Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Fink, Sharpe and Creed spreading more lies.
I despair.
Anyone know anything about this doctor?
Idle thoughts of an idle fellow Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Fink, Sharpe and Creed spreading more lies.
I despair.
Signed the card.
Geesh! A new Infernal Trio: FINK
; Sharp and Creed . It's enough to drive us all to drink.
Creed is now retired from U of Manchester but still busy on the circuit and with Euronet-Soma.
http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c738
Defeatism among clinicians is undermining evidence that it can be treated
http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/reasons-for-patient-disenchantment.htm
Evidently Dr Santhouse was a member of the NICE G53 Guideline Development Group.
Defeatism among clinicians is undermining evidence that it can be treated
- Alastair M Santhouse, consultant in psychological medicine1,
- Matthew Hotopf, professor of general hospital psychiatry2,
- Anthony S David, professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry3
http://www.meactionuk.org.uk/reasons-for-patient-disenchantment.htm
Evidently Dr Santhouse was a member of the NICE G53 Guideline Development Group.
Workshop 3: Current understanding, dilemmas and debates in chronic fatigue syndrome Dr Al Santhouse, Consultant in Psychological Medicine, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Anyone know anything about this doctor?
Idle thoughts of an idle fellow Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Fink, Sharpe and Creed spreading more lies.
I despair.
Anyone know anything about this doctor?
Idle thoughts of an idle fellow Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Fink, Sharpe and Creed spreading more lies.
I despair.
https://www.national.slam.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Chronic-Fatigue-Service-booklet.pdf
Dr Alastair Santhouse is apparently a miracle worker with Prof Trudie Chalder whose CFS service is at the cutting edge of CFS research
. 65% of his CFS patients are much improved, even recovered, with GET/CBT. When he isn't performing such miracle cures he is touring the country spreading the good news of his amazing success with the medical profession.
I have an audio of the Fink Birthday Aarhus Symposium from 2014.
Creed, Sharpe and Peter White were all speakers at that Symposium and they were all over Fink.
How "wonderful" he was - how he had "saved that girl [sic]" whom the protest outside was about.
Makes for very queasy listening.
Creed, Sharpe and Peter White were all speakers at that Symposium and they were all over Fink.
How "wonderful" he was - how he had "saved that girl [sic]" whom the protest outside was about.
Makes for very queasy listening.