§ Mr. BlizzardTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the work carried out to date by the CFS/ME Working Group. [127701]
§ Yvette CooperThe Chief Medical Officer's Working Group on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) has just completed a year-long scoping exercise, which included a children's sounding board event held in October last year and an adult sounding board event held on 7 June 2000. These events were designed to gather patients' views of service. The Group will now begin to move into the second phase of work which will include a consensus-building exercise, to assist with the development of clinical guidance as well as the drafting of the final report.
§ Mr. BlizzardTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to receive the final report of the CFS/ME Working Group. [127702]
§ Yvette CooperThe Chief Medical Officer expects to receive and consider the final report from his working group on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in 2001.