Nigel Speight

Dr Nigel Speight is a semi-retired British doctor based in the North East of England who specialises in paediatric ME/CFS including child protection cases.

Dr Speight features in the film Voices from the Shadows.

He has written about his views on childhood ME/CFS.

2016 General Medical Council complaint
In 2016 Doctor Speight was subject of a complaint to the General Medical Council (that oversees British doctors) by Esther Crawley. The complaint was upheld, and Doctor Speight prohibited from practicing medicine in the area of ME/CFS for eighteen months, from April 2016 until July 2017. Doctor Speight immediately resigned from patient charities.

Talks & interviews
Dr Speight recorded a number of video interviews with the Dutch ME/CFS Association:
 * 2014, Nigel Speight: 'Exercise and ME/CFS' at Bristol Watershed. Part Two
 * Interview with Dr Nigel Speight
 * Diagnostic tools for ME
 * Future and hope
 * ME and children - part 1
 * ME and children - part 2
 * What is ME and what is CFS?
 * ME/CFS and the course of the disease

Learn more

 * Sick and Tired - BBC (TV show featuring Dr Speight)