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National ME Centre
Disablement Services CentreHarold Wood Hospital
Gubbins Lane
Harold Wood
Romford
Essex
RM3 0AR
Tel: 01708 378050
Fax: 01708 378032
Web: www.nmec.org.uk
Best time to telephone: 10am - 1pm, Monday - Friday
The National ME Centre and Centre for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome offers a programme of medication and therapy to sufferers. The centre is staffed by volunteers some of whom are trained as support workers to assist the medical professionals. The NMEC is a charity based at Harold Wood Hospital. Patients can be referred to the centre by their GP for treatment. Full details of the referral procedure are included in an information pack and application form available from the centre. The centre also offers the following to those who contact the centre.
- Telephone advice to callers from all over the country.
- It determines if there is a source of help local to the caller.
- It asks if the caller has a diagnosis and if their GP or consultant would be willing to refer them.
- GPs can be offered information packs, videos and telephone information.
- Each GP's referral letter is seen by consultants and a decision taken about the most appropriate place for the patient to be seen - either at the Centre or the NHS Clinic at the hospital.
- Initial advice and information from support workers.
- It signposts to other agencies.
Checked: December 2006
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