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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ella Pickover

Government pledges to ‘transform care’ for people with ME

Maeve Boothby-O’Neill, 27, had written to her doctor asking for help with feeding as she was hungry (Family handout/PA) -

The Government has pledged to give hundreds of thousands of people living with chronic fatigue syndrome “improved care closer to home” as it acknowledged that many patients with the condition “struggle” to get appropriate care.

The Department of Health and Social Care said it is “committed to changing attitudes and transforming care” for people with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) as it prepared to publish a new plan to improve care for people with the condition.

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