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Royal Free 'Fatigue' clinic, London

Esther12

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I've heard bad things, but that was a while back. I think it is supervised by White, and that has to be a bad sign.

There was a paper on self-reported outcomes which found pretty poor results for NHS services generally (although written by those with a vested interest in them, so the paper is pretty positive): http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/6/555

Also, those centres providing GET over activity management did worse overall - while White's centre at Barts provides GET and claims to have had the best results. Presumably this means that the other centres providing GET had truly terrible results - but it's hard to say for sure as a lot of information has not been released (unless it can be used to promote services!).

The Sussex and Kent ME/CFS society is run by someone who really doesn't seem very bright, and is consistently supportive of authority. They could be one of the reasons why the service has a bad reputation.
 
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Raines

Seize. Eggs. I don't know. Zebra. Eighties.
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201
Location
UK
Thanks, while looking for information about this clinc I have only found the same press relesase type information over and over again.
Its seems hard to find any other information at all.
You'd think that with 4000 referrals I could find some reviews of the place.