�The UK's leading system supporting and representing the interests of people with any of the 200 forms of arthritis was last night voted Health Charity of the Year by members of the Medical Journalists' Association.
The user-led charity, which notable its diamond jubilee in 2007 and pre-dates the NHS by one twelvemonth, beat a distinguished champaign to scoop the in demand award. Fellow short-listers were the British Heart Foundation, Mencap, the Royal National Institute for the Blind, and the Prostate Cancer Charity.
Some nine million people in the UK have arthritis. It has no cure, comes in forms ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to osteoarthritis, gout and lupus, and is the biggest cause of physical disablement in the country. It affects people of whatever age, including 12,000 children, toddlers, and babies.
'Arthritis Care aims to be the first point in time of call and 'one-stop-shop' for anyone wanting to learn around arthritis in any of its 200 forms. This award is a vote of confidence in the information we provide to the media and to the public, and it's fantastic that it comes from the big hitters of the MJA. They are the respected, important communicators wHO influence health and public policy, so if we are portion them, then we're doing our possess job of helping people with arthritis to get their voices heard', said Rachel Haynes, Arthritis Care's director of public affairs, who equanimous the awarding at last night's ceremonial occasion at the Royal Society of Medicine.
Arthritis Care provides free helplines and publishes a range of jargon-free factsheets and booklets offering information and support to people with arthritis, or affected by it. It also offers free-to-user self-management courses, equipping mass with prospicient term conditions to live 'smart', and to operate their lives more efficaciously beyond the surgery door. Its internet site also operates discussion forums where mass with arthritis, often isolated by handicap, can take on and offer mutual equal support, communion experiences and swapping ideas and tips for header with arthritis.
Arthritis Care, established in 1947, is the UK's largest voluntary organisation committed to load-bearing people with arthritis. Arthritis Care predates the NHS by one year and has always pioneered self-management, including introducing American-style courses to the UK in the 1990s, which paved the manner to the Expert Patient Programme.
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