Extract from Commons debate on Appropriate ME Treatment - Jan 24
Friday, 25 January 2019 08:49
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social
Care (Steve Brine):...ME research remains an area of very high
strategic importance for the MRC. I do not have time to go into all
the money granted. Members have said this afternoon, “We must
surely fund more research,” but Ministers do not sit in the
Department of Health and Social Care and decide on what to do
research. One of the great legacies of the late Baroness
Jowell was that she understood in brain...Request free trial
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and
Social Care (Steve Brine):...ME research remains an area
of very high strategic importance for the MRC. I do not have time
to go into all the money granted. Members have said this afternoon,
“We must surely fund more research,” but Ministers do not sit in
the Department of Health and Social Care and decide on what to do
research. One of the great legacies of the late
was that she understood in brain
tumour research that we need to stimulate that research
community to come forward with the best research proposals that
then can be successful in bidding for funding. The truth
is—sometimes it is a hard and inconvenient truth to hear—there have
not been good enough research proposals in the ME space, partly
because of the stigma—a point raised very well by the hon. Member
for Lincoln; she looks delighted that I have mentioned her—and
partly because of the division in the medical community. We need
people to come forward with good research proposals in this space;
that can only be advantageous...
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