Oh dear ... I just watched the segment (it's only about 14 minutes) ... I had forgotten how concerned Nadine Dorries always seems to be with her own importance.
She's also entirely focussed on care in the home - "what is needed are experts and specialists in providing that type of care ...". While welcome in itself for severe sufferers, it's the same old distraction from the real issue, isn't it? Credit to Wright, he tries to make the point, but then he is tending to focus on research spending. Again, really important, but those elephants in the room — the front line response of the NHS to pwME and the false characterisation of the illness — are being ignored.
At one point Nadine says something like "according to the figures I've been given" ... and that's why nothing's changing, I guess. People like her, who might be able to start changing the situation, are being fed the same misinformation from the same old sources.
If I knew nothing of the illness, I think that item would have left me with the view that the main question was whether we're spending enough money on home nursing care, and that maybe a bit more research would be nice.
The shame is that Matthew Wright seems like he might be willing and able to do a really important in-depth show on this subject. But it was a case of 15 minutes, give everyone a turn regardless of whether they know what they're talking about (Nadine) and on with the next segment. Ain't live TV great?
Anyone got Jacques Peretti's email? The Men Who Made Us Think M.E. Was All in the Mind is a documentary begging to be made.