For years many doctors believed M.E. – the long term neurological condition which causes debilitating pain and fatigue – was “all in the mind” of those who were suffering.
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That means many of the 250,000 people in the UK estimated to have the disease have struggled to find appropriate medical care.
There’s no known cure, and a new government plan to deliver improved treatment and research which was promised by the end of last year, has yet to materialise.
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