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Over the next fortnight Maeve Boothby O'Neill's inquest will take place in Exeter.
Today, her father Sean O'Neill, journalist for The Times has written an article that includes information about her.
I will attach a pdf copy of it incase it is behind a paywall for you.
by Fiona Hamilton
Friday July 19 2024, 4.00pm, The Times
https://www.thetimes.com/topic/health
https://www.thetimes.com/topic/uk-politics
Sir Sajid Javid was the first senior minister to challenge the medical attitude that the disease was only psychological, when he was health secretary in 2021-2022
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
Today, her father Sean O'Neill, journalist for The Times has written an article that includes information about her.
I will attach a pdf copy of it incase it is behind a paywall for you.
Sajid Javid: Labour must deliver on ME as patients suffer without a cure
The former health secretary’s call to action coincides with a landmark inquiry into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, the eldest daughter of The Times’ senior writer Sean O’Neillby Fiona Hamilton
Friday July 19 2024, 4.00pm, The Times
https://www.thetimes.com/topic/health
https://www.thetimes.com/topic/uk-politics
![Sir Sajid Javid was the first senior minister to challenge the medical attitude that the disease was only psychological, when he was health secretary in 2021-2022 Sir Sajid Javid was the first senior minister to challenge the medical attitude that the disease was only psychological, when he was health secretary in 2021-2022](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.com%2Fimageserver%2Fimage%2F%252Fmethode%252Ftimes%252Fprod%252Fweb%252Fbin%252Ffd312ba4-a954-4155-835d-0d943d9fc89e.jpg%3Fcrop%3D5000%252C2812%252C0%252C156%26resize%3D360&hash=69c213fc9bf0960521764996cceace28)
Sir Sajid Javid was the first senior minister to challenge the medical attitude that the disease was only psychological, when he was health secretary in 2021-2022
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD POHLE
The Wonford hospital declined to comment..........you bet they did, especially as they are still treating a very severe patient appallingly.The new Labour government must urgently implement a long-delayed strategy to improve the treatment and understanding of the debilitating illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), Sir Sajid Javid has said.
The former health secretary warned that ME patients, who suffer severe symptoms and are often faced with sceptical attitudes from the medical profession, have been “left behind for too long”.
Javid called on Labour to finish the work he began as health secretary in 2021-22 to develop a plan for patient care and new research into the condition, which is also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and has no known cure, and affects at least 250,000 people in Britain.
Javid’s intervention comes ahead of a landmark inquest which begins on Monday into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill, who suffered from ME and died aged 27 in October 2021.
Maeve was the eldest daughter of Sean O’Neill, a senior writer at The Times, who has reported on the need for better research on the condition and the improvement of patient care. O’Neill has also highlighted the dismissive attitude offered by many in the medical profession towards the illness................................................