'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, (CFS/ME)'

Paperback book, 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, (CFS/ME)', Second Edition by Frankie Campling and Michael Sharpe, Oxford University Press, 2007

This book was one of the 30 titles of Reading Well Books on Prescription in 2013.

Clinical psychologist Neil Frude came up with the scheme in 2003. In 2013, Reading Well Books on Prescription was launched as part of the NHS’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (now called NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression programme). The programme aims to improve access to, evidence-based, NICE recommended, psychological therapies. The book list was put together by an expert panel and could be prescribed by GPs, mental health nurses, counsellors and IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme) psychological well-being practitioners. Books were also available for pick up in libraries.

By March 2021, 2.6 million Reading Well titles were borrowed from public libraries. A range of Reading Well lists are now available and titles are recommended by health experts, people with lived experience and their relatives and carers.

Libraries were chosen as a place to deliver Reading Well as surveys found that many people viewed libraries as safe environments to find out about health issues.