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My daughter died of ME. I had to fight the NHS for answers

2024/10/28
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  • 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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Information and helpline services for ME are available at Action for ME) and The ME Association.)

**Further reading: **

**Guest: **Sean O’Neill, Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s father and Senior Writer, The Times.

**Host: **Manveen Rana.

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