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Dr Charles Shepherd has written to the Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust to complain about a CFS job ad, quoting problems with the use of language to & about people with ME/ #CFS highlighted in the government's interim delivery plan. "I hope that you will therefore urgently remove the offensive language in this advert that puts the communication blame on patients rather than health professionals”
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The Canary article: “A disgraceful NHS trust just showed why people living with ME don’t trust medical professionals at all” by Steve Topple
Points out that Professor Michael Sharpe is head of the trust, and that argued people with ME don't need the kind of psychological interventions described in the advert.
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This is unbelievably disappointing. A direct link to thecanary article is here: https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2023/08/16/me-cfs-nhs-trust-clinical-psychologist/
