Nice Guidelines Quotes

“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be more obtainable within the NHS; people's lives should be placed ahead of funding restraints and bureaucratic red tape. We need minimum standards of care and treatment agreed and implemented within the NHS to end the current nightmare of the postcode lottery—not just guidelines that can be ignored but actual regulations.”
― carol broad , Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices

“The most important limitation of [clinical] guidelines is that the recommendations may be wrong... Practices that are sub-optimal from the patient’s perspective may be recommended to help control costs, serve societal needs, or protect special interests (those of doctors…or politicians, for example).”
― Steven H. Woolf

“We believe CFS is a biological illness, manifest with complex interlinking between adverse thoughts, moods, emotions and physical symptoms.”
― Theo Anbu