ME Association

The ME Association is a UK health charitable organization that provides information, advocacy, and services to persons and families affected by ME/CFS, and raises funds for research into ME/CFS.

[2] The organisation informs its members of developments affecting sufferers, carers, family and friends, via its quarterly magazine ME Essential, its website, and other communication media.

[citation needed] As of 2005, persons with ME/CFS in the UK still had difficulty obtaining treatment literature from their General Practitioners' surgeries.

[8] In 2018, the MEA repeated that GET should be withdrawn, and this should not be delayed until the ongoing UK's NICE guidelines review was completed.

[9] The 2015 MEA survey results concluded that CBT based on the now disproven assumption that abnormal beliefs and behaviours are responsible for maintaining the illness, are inappropriate, and risked a worsening of symptoms.

[10] The ME association was skeptical of the former guidance recommended by The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for primary treatment of ME/CFS.