Motion · S1M-01763 · 15 Mar 2001

Specialist Clinic for ME

Lodged by Mr John McAllion Members' Business Motion 80 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament , in view of 2001 being the Year of the Severely Affected with ME and in view of ME Awareness Week in May 2001, acknowledges the suffering of an estimated fifteen thousand patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) including an estimated two and a half thousand children, and asks the Scottish Executive to commission urgently a strategic needs review assessment into ME and CFS and to set up a specialist ME and CFS clinic for diagnosis and treatment of sufferers.

Supporters (80)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.