Written question asked by Lord Mawhinney (Conservative) on Tuesday, 1 May 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 8 May 2001. It was answered by Yvette Cooper (Labour) on Tuesday, 8 May 2001 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many doctors specialising in ME are attached to NHS trusts in the (a) Cambridgeshire/Peterborough, (b) Lincolnshire and (c) Northamptonshire health authority areas. - Includes fact that information requested is not available centrally.

Answer: Sir Brian Mawhinney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors specialising in ME are attached to NHS trusts in the (a) Cambridgeshire/ Peterborough, (b) Lincolnshire and (c) Northamptonshire health authority areas. [160333] Yvette Cooper: The information requested is not available centrally or collected in Lincolnshire. Addenbrooke's national health service trust is reported to have five general neurologists working across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. In Northamptonshire, no one clinician has been identified with a particular interest in CFS/ME, although general physicians and neurologists are available to exclude alternative diagnosis.

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