Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent research his Department has commissioned on the diagnosis and treatment of ME.
The Department, through the National Institute for Health Research, has recently commissioned one project on the treatment of symptoms of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Professor Esther Crawley, of the University of Bristol, was awarded funding for research entitled, ‘Investigating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of using FITNET to treat paediatric CFS/ME in the UK’. This project began in May 2016. Full details of the research can be found at:
https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/programmes/hta/14192109/#/summary-of-research