ABOUT #MEACTION SCOTLAND

#MEAction Scotland is a volunteer-led group determined to raise awareness of ME in Scotland and campaign for health equality for the patient community. We are an affiliate of #MEAction UK

Responsibility for delivery of  health services and policy decisions in Scotland are devolved to the Scottish Parliament. By being Scotland-specific, #MEAction Scotland can engage directly with Members of Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and NHS Scotland health boards. Where projects affect the whole of the UK, we work closely with the UK team.

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Home Test To Treat: Access Free Home Telehealth for Flu & COVID-19 Infections

#MEAction and Body Politic* are excited to collaborate with Home Test To Treat to share their critically important resource! Acute COVID-19 treatment and testing is unfortunately becoming harder and harder to access with the U.S. government public health emergency having been declared ended. The Home Test To Treat pilot program is a way to fill

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Get Involved in Campaigning

To get involved in any aspect of our work in Scotland, click on the image to contact us and arrange a chat with one of our volunteers.

You can also click here to join our #MEAction Scotland Facebook group.

MEET YOUR MSP

#MEAction Scotland has developed a guide to give you the basic tools to help you feel confident in meeting your MSP. Click the photo above to read it now.

Explore OUR RESOURCES

Take a look through the resources our volunteers have created to help you understand our work, as well as factsheets and guides to enable you to take action.

LATEST News

#MEAction UK’s letter to The Telegraph, Feb 2024

In  Judith Woods’ Comment piece on 2nd February 2024, ‘28-year-old Lauren Hoeve died by euthanasia – to a degree, I understand her pain’ she boldly asserts that a great deal of Lauren’s anguish was ‘psychological’.  The writer then belittles the immense pain suffered by people with severe ME, as Lauren did from 2019, as she

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#MEAction UK and Scotland update prevalence figures based on new data

Both the UK and Scotland branches of #MEAction will start using updated figures for the prevalence of ME, based on a recent US survey. Unfortunately, all prevalence estimates for ME are of limited accuracy. This is due to a range of factors including, but not limited to, uncertainty around diagnosis, lack of confidence among healthcare

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#MEAction UK’s letter to the BBC over the show Dragons’ Den

We are writing to express our deep concerns about a segment featured on an episode of Dragons’ Den, which aired on BBC1 on Jan 18th 2024. The episode in question showcased a product “Acu Seeds” that had a back story where the entrepreneur said she “believed they had aided in her recovery of ME/CFS”. This

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EXPLORE OUR SCOTTISH RESOURCES

Contact the Scottish team

Looking to contact someone else? Contact the global team here, or the UK team here.

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