Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

(asked on 1st March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cases of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis have been recorded in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Lancaster and (d) East Anglia in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 9th March 2016

This information is not collected in England.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence clinical guidance, Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy): Diagnosis and management of CFS/ME in adults and children, published in 2007, estimates that the annual prevalence is approximately 4,000 cases per million of the population.

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