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| RCGP agrees to stop classifying CFS as a mental health disorder |
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The ME Association is pleased to announce that we have been informed by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) that they will now remove their classification of CFS as a mental health disorder. This follows a prolonged exchange of correspondence with the MEA on this issue and the fact that it was also raised in House of Lords questions to Lord Darzi in June, and at the APPG meeting in July.
This is an important precedent in that it will now be very difficult for anyone in a position of authority to claim that CFS (or ME or CFS) can be classified or officially listed as a mental health disorder.
The MEA will still be meeting the RCGP to discuss the wider issue of diagnosis and management of the illness in primary care.
Thanks to both the Countess of Mar for securing time in the House of Lords for questions on ME/CFS to Lord Darzi in June and to Baroness Howe for asking about the RCGP classification (more here).
The relevant part of the email from Ruth Palmer, Director of Professional Development and Standards at the RCGP, states:
Dear Dr Shepherd
We remain happy to have a meeting with you and I am sorry that it has taken so long to arrange this.
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