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News, 06 Nov 2025

NRAS Launch New 3 Year Strategy

NRAS launches new strategy to transform its support for people living with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS), the UK’s leading independent charity supporting people with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), has today unveiled a new organisational strategy aimed at tackling urgent challenges in care, diagnosis, […]

News, 01 Nov 2025

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News, 12 Oct 2025

World Arthritis Day 2025: Raising Awareness for Rheumatoid Arthritis

World Arthritis Day (WAD), observed annually on 12th October, is a global initiative to spotlight conditions like Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) – a complex autoimmune disease that is often misunderstood. To mark WAD 2025, the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) has re-released a powerful video originally launched in 2019. The video’s message about the stigma and misconceptions surrounding RA remains […]

News, 26 Sep 2025

Paracetamol and Pregnancy

The Department of Health and Social Care has put out a statement in relation to recent media surrounding the use of paracetamol during pregnancy. The statement reassures individuals that taking paracetamol is safe and recommended as the first choice pain reliever for pregnant women. The facts The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has also […]

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News, 18 Sep 2025

Metal toxicity: 2000 hip implants recalled

The Medical Health Regulator’s Guidance & a Patient’s Story Reported by the Daily Telegraph (5th September 2025), the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a safety alert confirming increased risks linked to certain Profemur cobalt-chromium modular neck hip replacements. One patient, Tracey O’Neill, shared her experience in the national press (The Daily […]

News, 14 Sep 2025

Introducing our new Symptom Checker

Introducing our new symptom checker, a user-friendly online resource developed with input from leading rheumatology experts.

News, 01 Sep 2025

Scottish Survey: Life with inflammatory conditions

NRAS are leading on an important collaborative survey of people with autoimmune inflammatory conditions across Scotland about their experience of care in the NHS.

News, 24 Jul 2025

Our response to ‘Diagnosis Connect’

We were pleased to see the Government announce last week they will be launching a new service in 2026, Diagnosis Connect, that will see people with long term conditions automatically referred to specialist charities at the point of diagnosis. For nearly 25 years NRAS has been providing support to people with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Juvenile […]

News, 10 Jul 2025

The latest on the Universal Credit Bill

The Labour government successfully passed its revised Universal Credit Bill through its third reading in the House of Commons (336 votes to 242), with 47 Labour MPs voting against. This followed earlier major concessions, particularly during the second reading, where PIP reforms were dropped to avoid defeat. Key points: The bill may still face scrutiny […]

News, 03 Jul 2025

NHS 10 Year Health Plan

Following the lengthy public consultation last year, we have finally received the 10 Year Health Plan for the NHS. In July 2024, we heard from the newly elected Labour Government that the NHS was “broken” and that there would not be any more “money without reform”. This started a year-long campaign to try and identify […]

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