Northern Ireland Minister lobbied on biologics :-D
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NI Minister lobbied on biologics.
Arthritis Care lobbied Edwin Poots MLA, Northern Ireland Minister for Health, yesterday, on behalf of people with severe Rheumatoid Arthritis who are waiting for access to biological (anti-TNF) treatments. Arthritis Care Policy Adviser Steve McBride, consultant rheumatologist Anita Smyth, and patient Caitriona Roberts, along with representatives for people with p...soriasis and Crohn’s disease, urged the Minister to ensure that people who needed the highly effective treatments were able to get them without unnecessary delays.
Speaking after the meeting Steve McBride said ‘The Minister – and Assembly Health Committee Vice Chair Jim Wells, who led the delegation – fully recognise the benefits of these treatments. There has been a very real improvement in access for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis over the last year, as a result of the Minister’s efforts and of our previous lobbying. What we want to see is extra funding being made permanent and people who need these treatments having access to them as soon as possible and in line with best practice in the rest of the UK.
Refreshing to read. Thank you
Elna
NI Minister lobbied on biologics.
Arthritis Care lobbied Edwin Poots MLA, Northern Ireland Minister for Health, yesterday, on behalf of people with severe Rheumatoid Arthritis who are waiting for access to biological (anti-TNF) treatments. Arthritis Care Policy Adviser Steve McBride, consultant rheumatologist Anita Smyth, and patient Caitriona Roberts, along with representatives for people with p...soriasis and Crohn’s disease, urged the Minister to ensure that people who needed the highly effective treatments were able to get them without unnecessary delays.
Speaking after the meeting Steve McBride said ‘The Minister – and Assembly Health Committee Vice Chair Jim Wells, who led the delegation – fully recognise the benefits of these treatments. There has been a very real improvement in access for people with Rheumatoid Arthritis over the last year, as a result of the Minister’s efforts and of our previous lobbying. What we want to see is extra funding being made permanent and people who need these treatments having access to them as soon as possible and in line with best practice in the rest of the UK.
Refreshing to read. Thank you
Elna
The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.
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Thankyou Elna
Its good to know that there are people out there fighting our cause, or at least those with RA xLove
Barbara0 -
Thanks Elna. I,m from Northern Ireland and have RA so found the article very interesting.
7worlds0 -
Hi 7worlds
I am so pleased you found the article interesting. So it WAS worth me copying and pasting it. :-D
Elna xThe happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.0 -
Indeed it is, Barbara.
Elna xxThe happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
If you can lay down at night knowing in your heart that you made someone's day just a little bit better, you know you had a good day.0
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