The Mitchell family wish to let former colleagues and former patients know the following;
Dr Terry Mitchell, a leading ME/CFS specialist in the UK,
died at home on Friday 3 July 2015 after a long battle with debilitating
illness.
Dr Mitchell was the Consultant clinical lead of the Norfolk, Suffolk
and Cambridgeshire NHS ME/CFS Service until 2008 and thereafter ran the
Peterborough ME/CFS Service until his retirement in 2011.
Under sometimes difficult circumstances, he cared for thousands of
patients throughout his career with great compassion and humanity. He
also quietly acted as an advocate for ME sufferers in local, national
and international fora.
Dr Mitchell personally endorsed and ensured distribution of the
Carruthers et al Criteria (2003) and Overview (2005) documents to all
referring clinicians in his NHS practice areas. He subsequently went on
to co-author the International Consensus Criteria (2011) and Clinical
Primer (2012) along with Dr Bruce Carruthers and colleagues.
He was a critic of the UK’s National Institute for Health and
Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline 53 for ‘CFS/ME’ patients.
Dr Mitchell will be greatly missed by many former patients,
colleagues and friends as well as by family. He was a true humanitarian.
The Mitchell family wish to have a private funeral for immediate family and friends.
Details of an opportunity to celebrate Terry’s life and work, together with an RSVP can be found here http://eame.org.uk/ Please reply as soon as possible.
The intention is to hold this thanksgiving in
Suffolk on Friday, July 24. Friends, colleagues and past patients will
all be welcome.
