Stop treating Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)

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Popularity

This petition has 721 signatures in total, with signatories from 384 constituencies. That makes it the 9,196th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 40% (very low) and a Local Issue Rating of 31% (high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 11 - Cheltenham
• 6 - St Ives
• 6 - Charnwood
• 6 - Argyll and Bute
• 6 - Southampton, Test
• 6 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 6 - Stroud
• 5 - Bury St Edmunds
• 5 - Norwich South
• 5 - Tewkesbury
• 5 - Forest of Dean
• 5 - Gloucester
• 5 - Twickenham
• 5 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 5 - West Dorset
• 5 - Broadland
• 5 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 5 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 5 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 5 - Derbyshire Dales
• 4 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 4 - Huntingdon
• 4 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 4 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 4 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 4 - Chippenham
• 4 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 4 - Totnes
• 4 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 4 - North Tyneside
• 4 - City of Durham
• 4 - Portsmouth North
• 4 - Epping Forest
• 3 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 3 - Hemsworth
• 3 - Liverpool, Walton
• 3 - Worthing West
• 3 - North Down
• 3 - East Yorkshire
• 3 - Witham
• 3 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 3 - Doncaster North
• 3 - South Antrim
• 3 - Great Yarmouth
• 3 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 3 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 3 - Islington North
• 3 - North Somerset
• 3 - North West Leicestershire
• 3 - Poole
• 3 - Preston
• 3 - Stockton North
• 3 - Salford and Eccles
• 3 - Salisbury
• 3 - Selby and Ainsty
• 3 - Sheffield Central
• 3 - Somerton and Frome
• 3 - South East Cornwall
• 3 - South Staffordshire
• 3 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Kingswood
• 3 - North Thanet
• 3 - Leeds West
• 3 - Leicester West
• 3 - Wellingborough
• 3 - Wantage
• 3 - Wallasey
• 3 - Mid Sussex
• 3 - Mid Worcestershire
• 3 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 3 - The Cotswolds
• 3 - South Leicestershire
• 3 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Bristol North West
• 3 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 3 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 3 - Burton
• 3 - East Dunbartonshire
• 3 - Montgomeryshire
• 3 - Swansea East
• 3 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 2 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 2 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 2 - Wealden
• 2 - Henley
• 2 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 2 - Rugby
• 2 - Basingstoke
• 2 - Leeds Central
• 2 - Broxtowe
• 2 - Hove
• 2 - Westminster North
• 2 - Romford
• 2 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 2 - West Suffolk
• 2 - Isle of Wight
• 2 - Bexhill and Battle
• 2 - Jarrow
• 2 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 2 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 2 - Glasgow North West
• 2 - Rutland and Melton
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - Redcar
• 2 - Luton North
• 2 - Boston and Skegness
• 2 - Peterborough
• 2 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 2 - North East Derbyshire
• 2 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 2 - North East Fife
• 2 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 2 - Taunton Deane
• 2 - Sunderland Central
• 2 - Bishop Auckland
• 2 - North West Norfolk
• 2 - Bosworth
• 2 - Bournemouth East
• 2 - Reading West
• 2 - Macclesfield
• 2 - Maldon
• 2 - Manchester, Gorton
• 2 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 2 - Mansfield
• 2 - Mid Derbyshire
• 2 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 2 - Bath
• 2 - Delyn
• 2 - Tottenham
• 2 - Norwich North
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - Darlington
• 2 - Epsom and Ewell
• 2 - South Dorset
• 2 - North Cornwall
• 2 - Mid Ulster
• 2 - Dover
• 2 - Chesterfield
• 2 - South West Wiltshire
• 2 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 2 - Gateshead
• 2 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 2 - City of Chester
• 2 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 2 - Strangford
• 2 - Daventry
• 2 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 2 - South Swindon
• 2 - East Lothian
• 2 - Ealing North
• 2 - East Hampshire
• 2 - East Surrey
• 2 - Colne Valley
• 2 - Eastbourne
• 2 - Eastleigh
• 2 - Gosport
• 2 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 2 - Harwich and North Essex
• 2 - Glasgow North
• 2 - Wolverhampton South East
• 2 - Havant
• 2 - Hazel Grove
• 2 - Sevenoaks
• 2 - Bury South
• 2 - Caerphilly
• 2 - Wigan
• 2 - High Peak
• 2 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 2 - Wolverhampton North East
• 2 - Workington
• 2 - Grantham and Stamford
• 2 - Cambridge
• 2 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 1 - South Down
• 1 - Southampton, Itchen
• 1 - Stretford and Urmston
• 1 - South West Norfolk
• 1 - South Thanet
• 1 - Stockton South
• 1 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 1 - Stirling
• 1 - Stone
• 1 - Arfon
• 1 - St Albans
• 1 - South West Bedfordshire
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - South West Devon
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - Alyn and Deeside
• 1 - St Austell and Newquay
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - Ynys Môn
• 1 - Llanelli
• 1 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 1 - Cardiff North
• 1 - Southport
• 1 - Stockport
• 1 - Suffolk Coastal
• 1 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 1 - Wycombe
• 1 - Worcester
• 1 - Glasgow East
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - Windsor
• 1 - Winchester
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - Glasgow North East
• 1 - West Worcestershire
• 1 - Glasgow Central
• 1 - Yeovil
• 1 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 1 - Central Ayrshire
• 1 - Aberdeen North
• 1 - East Renfrewshire
• 1 - Aldershot
• 1 - Edinburgh East
• 1 - Fermanagh and South Tyrone
• 1 - Edinburgh South
• 1 - Belfast South
• 1 - York Outer
• 1 - York Central
• 1 - Glasgow South
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Truro and Falmouth
• 1 - Torbay
• 1 - Walthamstow
• 1 - Thurrock
• 1 - Thornbury and Yate
• 1 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 1 - Orkney and Shetland
• 1 - Telford
• 1 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 1 - Tatton
• 1 - Sutton and Cheam
• 1 - Tunbridge Wells
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Glenrothes
• 1 - Gordon
• 1 - West Bromwich West
• 1 - Watford
• 1 - Warrington South
• 1 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 1 - Moray
• 1 - Walsall South
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Tynemouth
• 1 - Livingston
• 1 - Surrey Heath
• 1 - Hartlepool
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - East Devon
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood
• 1 - Don Valley
• 1 - Devizes
• 1 - Denton and Reddish
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Congleton
• 1 - Christchurch
• 1 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 1 - Chelmsford
• 1 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 1 - Erewash
• 1 - Esher and Walton
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Halifax
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 1 - Guildford
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Gainsborough
• 1 - Fylde
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 1 - Fareham
• 1 - Exeter
• 1 - Camborne and Redruth
• 1 - Calder Valley
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - Beverley and Holderness
• 1 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Batley and Spen
• 1 - Bassetlaw
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Barnsley Central
• 1 - Barking
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - Ashfield
• 1 - Amber Valley
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 1 - Blackburn
• 1 - Blackpool South
• 1 - Burnley
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Bristol South
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 1 - Brigg and Goole
• 1 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 1 - Bradford East
• 1 - Bracknell
• 1 - Bournemouth West
• 1 - Bootle
• 1 - Bolton West
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 1 - Hastings and Rye
• 1 - South Shields
• 1 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 1 - Portsmouth South
• 1 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Oxford East
• 1 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 1 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 1 - Nottingham North
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - North Wiltshire
• 1 - North West Hampshire
• 1 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Knowsley
• 1 - North East Somerset
• 1 - Reading East
• 1 - Rochford and Southend East
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - South Ribble
• 1 - South Norfolk
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - South Derbyshire
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 1 - Skipton and Ripon
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Shipley
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 1 - Sheffield South East
• 1 - Sefton Central
• 1 - Saffron Walden
• 1 - North East Hertfordshire
• 1 - North Durham
• 1 - Lincoln
• 1 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - Leigh
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Ilford South
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 1 - Horsham
• 1 - Hertford and Stortford
• 1 - Hendon
• 1 - Louth and Horncastle
• 1 - Ludlow
• 1 - Luton South
• 1 - North Dorset
• 1 - North Devon
• 1 - Newton Abbot
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 1 - Newbury
• 1 - New Forest West
• 1 - New Forest East
• 1 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Mid Norfolk
• 1 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 1 - Manchester, Withington
• 1 - Manchester Central
• 1 - Maidenhead
• 1 - Hemel Hempstead

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 126 - South West
• 106 - South East
• 76 - East of England
• 70 - North West
• 60 - Scotland
• 59 - London
• 58 - East Midlands
• 51 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 35 - West Midlands
• 31 - North East
• 20 - Wales
• 13 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 711 - United Kingdom
• 4 - Spain
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - Canada
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - France
• 1 - Ireland
• 1 - South Africa