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One Click Seeks NICE Guidelines Extension - April 2007
The evidence to seek Judicial Review mounts.

On the 25 October 2006, One Click as a Stakeholder on the
development of the CFS/ME Draft NICE Guidelines despatched
a formal letter to this organisation and requested to be
provided with the full list of Advisers to the Guidelines
Development Group (GDG).

Our request to NICE was informed by the fact that it was
announced in the 25% ME Group for the Severely Affected
charity official Response (http://tinyurl.com/yx3o4x) to
these Draft Guidelines that psychiatrists Simon Wessely,
Peter White and Michael Sharpe were Advisers to the GDG.
This would go some considerable way to explaining the overt
psychiatric bias of the Guidelines contents that are unfit
for purpose and contravene the basic Human Rights of ME/CFS
labelled patients on many levels.

NICE is refusing to respond as the correspondence below
delineates. NICE is thus contravening its own Guidelines
Manual (http://tinyurl.com/yyk2ea), April 2006, that states
that Stakeholders must be treated by NICE in a "transparent
and collaborative manner." NICE has failed in its duty to
Stakeholders throughout this process.

There are serious legal ramifications in the production
process and content of the Draft ME/CFS NICE Guidelines.

We require the Consultation deadline for these Guidelines
to be extended from November 2006 April 2007. NICE clearly
has the information in its possession and is prevaricating
in this way whilst consulting with its solicitors, with the
bill being picked up at taxpayer's expense.

Herewith NICE contact details for our readers:

Sir Michael Rawlins
NICE Chairman
michael.rawlins@nice.org.uk

Dr Mercia Page
NICE Clinical Director, Clinical Practice
Mercia.Page@nice.org.uk

Mark Salmon
Associate Director, Corporate Services
Mark.Salmon@nice.org.uk

The more this NICE malfeasance goes on, the worse it gets.
The evidence mounts for Judicial Review.

The One Click Group