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Compliance, medico-legal considerations and enforceable obligations

Post date 23 July 2021
Categories In Compliance

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Unmanaged post-viral disease liability, risk exposure and rising pandemic exposure (draft) Compliance obligations for professionals, operational and expertise risks in practice management, social care, occupational health intermediation, insurance underwriting, claims management and reinsurance Summary The role of habitualised unlawful clinical judgement and discrimination that leads to elevated probability of evidentiable malpractice is outlined. Obligations and…Continue readingCompliance, medico-legal considerations and enforceable obligations

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Tests of model-dictated eligibility lawfulness (QCovid score example)

Post date 23 July 2021
Categories In Compliance

Identically, models cannot excuse discrimination that is substantiated in law. The simple clinical judgement lawfulness tests above apply to the lawfulness of model driven decision-making. Replacing the word “clinician” with “model” in the tests arrives at identical conclusions: a priori assumption of ineligibility/insufficient eligibility of ME/CFS patient cohorts or individuals is unlawful. Identically, models cannot…Continue readingTests of model-dictated eligibility lawfulness (QCovid score example)

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Illusion of legal authority vs medical law enforcement

Post date 23 July 2021
Categories In Compliance

Risk management practice in the field ME/CFS and related post-viral disease commonly introduces unmanaged risks and liabilities, due to widespread normalisation of unlawful clinical judgement and prejudicially low standards. This inherently manifests as unlawful suspension of compliance and legal norms. This implies practical disregard for medical law’s status as a field of law, not medicine.…Continue readingIllusion of legal authority vs medical law enforcement

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Third party risk to preceding unlawful clinical judgement (therapeutic and assessment examples)

Post date 23 July 2021
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The spectrum of behaviour discussed in this document frequently leads to hazardous distortions that compound risks from unlawful decision-making yet further. These distortions inherently project chains of risk to third parties, who are incentivised to firewall liabilities at the origin in your organisation. Distortions from unlawful decision-making project chains of risks to third parties, who…Continue readingThird party risk to preceding unlawful clinical judgement (therapeutic and assessment examples)

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Freedom of Information Act risks – flawed clinical judgement, discrimination and education refusal

Post date 23 July 2021
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The Freedom of Information Act 2000 affords patients, litigants and the scientific community several routes to highlight policy, reveal shortcomings and to enforce lawful clinical and administrative decision-making. It must be noted that the low and/or prejudicial standards of communication and record keeping that are often normalised in this professional field (link) can be revealed…Continue readingFreedom of Information Act risks – flawed clinical judgement, discrimination and education refusal

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Obligation to procure ME/CFS medical education

Post date 23 July 2021
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Educational materials defined by legally demonstrable scientific consensus are of material legal consequence versus liability for clinical outcomes, breaches of duty of care and relevant statutory and policy discrimination frameworks discussed in this document. This lack of medical education is documented empirically, by the UK National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence and addressed by…Continue readingObligation to procure ME/CFS medical education

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Stigma and causal attribution – new research

Post date 9 July 2021
Categories In News, Patient Perspective, Research Commentaries

Causal attributions and perceived stigma for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Doctors with M.E. Honorary Fellow, Professor Leonard Jason, continues his scholarship in the field of ME with his coauthorship of a newly published paper examining the role of stigma and its impact on health-related and social outcomes. In addition to ME’s extremely low…Continue readingStigma and causal attribution – new research

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Honorary Fellows and DwME leadership cited – medical profession moves towards belief and support

Post date 4 July 2021
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Doctors with M.E. Honorary Fellows and Leadership were quoted extensively in a recent article article about post-viral disease by Christina Frangou. Published in the Guardian, the article has been well received by experts in the field and is entitled“‘I felt betrayed’: how Covid research could help patients living with chronic fatigue syndrome.“ Research into long Covid is…Continue readingHonorary Fellows and DwME leadership cited – medical profession moves towards belief and support

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Position Statement: 2021 NICE Guideline Update

Post date 2 July 2021
Categories In 2021, News, NICE 2021, Policy Positions, Press Releases

On the 10th of November 2020, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published its draft updated guideline on the diagnosis and management of myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy)/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). NICE has updated its 2007 recommendations on the use of psycho-behavioural treatments for ME/CFS, concluding that Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) should no…Continue readingPosition Statement: 2021 NICE Guideline Update