Professional Education & Clinical Practice Tools Policy Brief - Community Edition

The ME|FM Society of BC expresses profound disappointment with the 2025 BC Budget’s continued neglect of over 87,000 British Columbians living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), 136,000 with FM and 118,000+ for those living with ME post COVID.  Despite years of advocacy and explicit recommendations from the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, this budget ignores the urgent needs of a community facing systemic healthcare barriers, stigma, and a loom

On November 29, 2021, we hosted a webinar for our members. Great to see so many of you together with us! This session presented findings of our preliminary project examining the unmet needs of British Columbians living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). Full, short and graphic reports of this project: ME in BC: How the healthcare system for ME impacts clinicians and patients , is available at: Our research | MEFM SOCIETY OF BC . Watch the recording of this presentation belo

To our ME community, We are elated to share with you the exciting progress we have made in our advocacy efforts - progress with our government that we know has been long awaited by those affected by ME! We are extremely proud of the work the Society's Advocacy Committee and our wonderful “MLA and ME Advocates” have undertaken this past year. MLA Relationships are being made and we now have 40 MLAs partnered with one of our ME Advocates. Plus, we recently experienced milestone

Congratulations to members of the ME/FM Society of BC's Research Committee, who had two poster presentations accepted at the International Association for CFS/ME conference. The conference was hosted virtually August 19 - 21, 2021. Thank you again to the patients and clinicians who participated in this project!