Thanks for the excellent article highlighting the need for a specialist ME/CFS clinic in Sussex.

I know how delays in gaining a firm diagnosis can affect the course of the illness.

It took four years before I was eventually given a firm diagnosis, after being trundled around from doctor to doctor.

This, combined with the stress involved, led to my illness becoming chronic.

Surely ME/CFS patients should have appropriate local care?

-Stephen Vaughan, Pembroke Court, Hove