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Meetings and Hearings |
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A number of meetings have been held by the Group, both before and after preparation and publication of its Report. |
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Meetings |
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Tuesday 8 May 2007 |
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Held by the Group to review, inter alia, possible further activities given its specific and limited purpose. A summary of the meeting is available here, as a 47Kb RTF file suitable for all main-stream word processing packages . . . |
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Tuesday 6 February 2007 |
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Held to discuss the Report, how to use it and how to keep the political momentum behind the ME cause. The Group felt 2007 to be an extremely important year for ME as it would see the publication of the new NICE guidelines and the new DWP guidelines. It is considered vital that the patient voice is heard and that ME is kept on the political agenda. The Group hopes the Report will help as a vehicle to do that. The meeting's agenda, together with notes of what took place (including a list of those present), are available here as Microsoft 'Word' word processing documents - 43Kb and 206Kb DOC files respectively. |
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Oral Hearings |
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A series of five Oral Hearings were held at which evidence was presented to the Group, in preparation for its Report, by various patient groups and expert individuals. A number of the presentations are available on the Presentation Documents page. |
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Oral Hearing 1 |
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Tuesday 18 April 2006 |
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3.30pm - 5.30pm |
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Venue |
Room E, 7 Millbank |
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Oral Hearing 2 |
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Wednesday 10 May 2006 |
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3.30pm - 5.00pm |
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Room T, Portcullis House |
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Oral Hearing 3 |
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Wednesday 7 June 2006 |
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3.30pm - 5.30pm |
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Room E, Portcullis House |
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It is very much regretted that it will not be possible to publish Minutes for Oral Hearing 3. Although contemporaneous if abbreviated handwritten notes were taken at the Hearing, unavoidable changes in key personnel shortly thereafter delayed production of the Minutes. Subsequently, despite the considerable efforts of a number of people and without access to the notes' author, it has proved impossible to interpret the notes with any degree of success. Although no real substitute for full Minutes, copies of all five of the Hearing's presentations are available here. |
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Oral Hearing 4 |
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Monday 10 July 2006 |
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3.00pm - 5.00pm |
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Venue |
Committee Room 20, House of Commons |
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Oral Hearing 5 |
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Tuesday 18 July 2006 |
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12.30pm - 1.00pm |
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Room N, Portcullis House |
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