AHMF: RACP Guidelines for CFS

In 1996 Dr Michael Wooldridge, Minister for Health and Family Services, approved an application to Medicare to provide funding of $130,000 to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) "to produce a series of guidelines on the most clinically relevant and cost effective methods of diagnosing and treating chronic fatigue syndrome".
First draft released December, 1997.
Second draft released June, 2001.

Critical responses to draft 2, June 2001

Peter C. Rowe	Professor of Pediatrics, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore USA
Abhijit Chaudhuri	Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, University of Glasgow
Peter Del Fante	GP, Public Health Physician
Ellie Stein	Psychiatrist
Archive	Further responses

Essential reading for a critical overview of Guidelines development

Address to Federal Government Policy Committee of Health and Aging	Christine Hunter December 2002
CFS clinical practice guidelines	Simon Molesworth, Richard Larkins, to the MJA
Response	Richard Larkins, President, RACP Working Group
First do no harm	AHMF correspondence to Richard Larkins, President, RACP Working Group 19/4/2002
Appendix 1 - Failures of Process	AHMF examines the guidelines development 1996-2002
Semantics-Based Medicine for CFS?	AHMF correspondence to RACP Working Group 4/8/2000
Betrayal of the Severely Ill?	AHMF response to RACP Draft Guidelines, extensive references, letters of support from consumer groups 22/4/1998
RACP Guidelines Development: Chronology
1999 Sydney ME/CFS Conference Consumer Address	Ted Shaw—critical analysis of RACP Draft Guidelines and their effect on the community
1998 Sydney ME/CFS Conference Consumer Address	Ted Shaw—critical analysis of RACP Draft Guidelines
Relevant correspondence: Professor D. Wakefield	11/4/1997
The AHMF's Submission to Draft 1	The full text of the AHMF's submission to the RACP CFS Working Group 1997