My daughter died of ME. I had to fight the NHS for answers
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
- When Sean O’Neill’s daughter Maeve died aged 27 from malnutrition caused by severe ME - myalgic encephalomyelitis - he faced years of waiting for an inquest to find out why the system failed her. That inquest has just ended, but will its ground-breaking conclusion change things for the hundreds of thousands of ME sufferers in the UK?
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Guest: Sean O’Neill, Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s father and Senior Writer, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Olivia Case.
Image credit: O'Neill family.
Further reading:
- My daughter died of ME. I had to fight the NHS for answers
- A scandal waiting for its Post Office moment
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