Look after your Mental Wellbeing

Look after your mental wellbeing It’s always important to look after your mental health, but even more so at times like these when we are all faced with uncertainty and isolation. https://www.samh.org.uk/about-mental-health/self-help-and-wellbeing/coronavirus-and-your-mental-wellbeing Free Guide To Living With Worry And Anxiety Amidst Global Uncertainty https://www.psychologytools.com/articles/free-guide-to-living-with-worry-and-anxiety-amidst-global-uncertainty/?fbclid=IwAR10deIp0hUIJ5hZqD0XWSKDwdtXuTgNt_fpeuTii9waYN1XXcO4lBzIACw

Disabled people on direct payments

Coronavirus: Government ‘has abandoned’ disabled people on direct payments The government is facing accusations that its emergency planning for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic has “abandoned” disabled people who use direct payments to employ their own personal assistants (PAs). Although the government finally produced guidance for the social care sector Read more…

ME Question in Parliament

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to expand NHS specialist chronic fatigue syndrome services in (a) Sussex (b) Kent and (c) other areas across the UK; and if he will make a statement. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2020-03-10.27580.h

Norwegian ME Report

New report on the most serious ME-sick Between 2500 and 5000 ME-sufferers have severe or very serious ME, and receive little to no follow-up in the health sector. “Very few have wanted to take them,” said scientist. A recent report from the NORWEGIAN Me Association has mapped those most AFFECTED Read more…