Journal of IiMER Volume 10 Issue 1 activities performed by the charity overlap. An example was the premiere screening in the UK of a film about ME, Voices from the Shadows, which allowed a debate to be initiated about past treatment of ME patients with a message relating to the damage being inflicted on families by flawed and biased research. Invest in ME organised the first two showings – one in Norwich and one at the British Library in London. In Norwich the Mayor of Norwich attended along with the media, patients, and family members. In London the British Library provided an imposing setting for a serious debate on this disease which the film allowed to be initiated. Dr Nigel Speight spoke at the screening on a panel which included a local London councillor. Our continued criticism of the PACE Trial showed how badly wrong research can go and how much money is being wasted on deleterious and flawed approaches to this disease by organisations that are unaccountable. June 2016 NHS services, GP training, press complaints made by the charity and other activities which the charity had conducted. The charity had also written to various organisations in order to clarify errors and misinformation in publications. Invest in ME continued with its annual conference events. In May 2012 our seventh Invest in ME International ME CPD accredited Conference (IIMEC7) took place in London along with the Clinical Autoimmunity Working Group (CAWG) which was a 2-day research meeting, the BRMEC2 Colloquium, that IiME organised in collaboration with the Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation of Australia – working together for over six months on designing this research meeting. The CAWG was an extraordinary meeting with world-renowned experts in different fields, not just ME and laid the foundations for our future colloquiums. On the evening before the conference Invest in ME arranged and hosted the pre-conference dinner and the charity was delighted to have Norwegian journalist Jørgen Jelstad Invest in ME had been invited to be an observer at the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for ME. The charity provided input to meetings on points concerning welfare reform, research, presenting his speech “Words Matter”. Jørgen has closely followed ME research and his presentation provided a great deal of food for thought. At the end of the 2012 conference we announced our intention to try to set up a clinical trial in the UK of rituximab for ME patients. Invest in ME (Charity Nr. 1114035) www.investinme.org Page 15 of 77
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