Healthwatch Kingston was approached by the Richmond and Kingston ME Group, to help raise awareness of the issues faced by people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia, also called fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS).
As long-term conditions are a focus in the Kingston Health and Care Plan 2022-24, and also a priority for Healthwatch Kingston (see pages 8 and 39 in our Annual Report 2022-23), we agreed to support this community engagement to find out more about the experiences of people living with ME/CFS and fibromyalgia in Kingston and what they thought about local health and social care services. This report adds ME/CFS and fibromyalgia services to Healthwatch Kingston’s other Pulse Check reports on diabetes, neurodiversity and MS (multiple sclerosis) services.
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