Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Health Services

(asked on 17th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure the adequacy of provision of local (a) services and (b) for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 25th June 2019

As with the vast majority of National Health Service care, the design and delivery of services for people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is the responsibility of local clinical commissioning groups.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline ‘Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy): Diagnosis and management of CFS/ME in adults and children’, published in 2007, sets out best practice for clinicians and commissioners in the diagnosis, treatment and support of patients with CFS/ME. The guidance can be found at the following link:

www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg53

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