APPG, on ME meeting of the 2nd of December=20
by=20
Ciaran Farrell
The APPG on ME met on the second of December this year to conclude the
Inquiry the APPG has been conducting into publicly funded UK NHS health
services for people with ME. APPGs are low level parliamentary =
committees
made up of members of the elected House of Commons and the unelected =
second
or upper tier of Parliament. However, APPGs are not part of the =
structure of
the UK Government and neither are they part of the official =
parliamentary
committee structure for the scrutiny of government legislation or =
government
departments like the Health Select Committee which scrutinises the =
Secretary
of State for Health and their junior ministerial colleges in order to =
have
parliamentary oversight of the Department of Health.
The main purpose of the APPG on ME=92s Inquiry was to interest the =
Health
Select Committee in setting up a similar and more powerful and well
resourced Inquiry into NHS services for people with ME. This appears to =
be a
very unlikely outcome given the way the APPG=92s Inquiry was conducted =
and the
way in which the Inquiry was concluded.
The meeting of the APPG held on 2/12/09 has proved to be a particularly
controversial one and there have been a number of rumours running around =
the
Internet about what took place. The first of a series of three videos =
gives
a factual account of what took place at this meeting with comment and
analysis. The remaining videos set out the background to the Inquiry =
from
its inception through to the way in which the Inquiry was carried out. =
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I would therefore recommend that anyone who has seen the various =
accounts of
the proceedings of the 2nd of December meeting on the Internet might =
like to
watch these videos in order to place the events of the 2nd of December
meeting in wider context of the APPG Inquiry as a whole, and then judge
matters accordingly.=20
The report on the meeting of the 2nd of December APPG meeting can be =
viewed
on the You Tube Channel action4change4me at :-
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DYyFp_sTNj08
The background to the APPG Inquiry can be found from a previous video =
report
of the 1st of April 2009 APPG meeting which deals with the setting up =
and
launching of the Inquiry which can be viewed through the You Tube =
Channel
action4change4me at :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DndqP-pSrj6I
There is another video report on the APPG on ME meeting of the 8th of
October 2008 at which the APPG first decides to initiate the Inquiry, =
which
can be viewed on the You Tube Channel GBC One here :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DvPPClZDko8c
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