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Promoting mental wellbeing at work

Taken from NRAS magazine, Spring 2010 NRAS welcomes the publication of The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance for employers on promoting mental wellbeing at work through productive and healthy working conditions. The guidance aims to help reduce the estimated 13.7 million working days lost each year due to work-related mental health […]

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Benefits

Please note, this information is due to be updated soon for Spring 2025. For up-to-date information on the governments proposed changes to benefits and our response to these changes, please see the following news items: Introduction If you have rheumatoid arthritis, there are a number of different benefits that you can claim. Whether you are […]

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Right Start Service

What is Right Start? Right Start supports people living with RA to understand their diagnosis and how it is likely to affect them. Getting the right support can help people to make adjustments to behaviour, lifestyle and health beliefs and understand why supported self-management is important and how to make those important first steps to managing […]

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Living with RA Service

What is the Living with RA service? Living with RA is a new service that has been developed by NRAS to support a range of HCPs working with patients who have been living with RA for a period of time. (Newly diagnosed RA patients can be referred to the New2RA Right Start Service) Getting the right, supportive help can […]

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Possible causes and risk factors

There is still much to learn about why rheumatoid arthritis affects people when it does. It is hard to say for certain why one individual person has developed RA. However, some of the potential causes of rheumatoid arthritis and the risk factors that make developing rheumatoid arthritis more likely, have been identified. Genetics Rheumatoid arthritis […]

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DMARDs

Unlike drugs used purely for symptom control, such as painkillers and anti-inflammatories, DMARDs can take a number of weeks to kick in (usually around 3-12 weeks). They will then continue to improve up until around 6 months when they will be working to their full potential. Each individual will respond differently to different medications, and it […]

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Pregnancy and parenthood

Pregnancy and parenthood can bring a lot of stresses and challenges but can also be a very rewarding and wonderful time in a person’s life. When one of the parents has RA there are added complications along the way, from potentially having to come off certain medications to conceive and during pregnancy, to post-pregnancy flares and potential difficulties in carrying your child. These […]

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Emotions, relationships and coping with RA

For every person given a diagnosis of RA, there is a wider circle of people who will also be affected by that diagnosis. This can include the patient’s partner, children, parents, colleagues and friends. The diagnosis can affect the nature of that relationship. A partner may sometimes have to take on the role of carer and romance and intimacy may […]

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Practical help

Many people with RA will struggle with everyday tasks and will be forced to find new ways to be able to do them, whether it’s through buying an aid or gadget, using items already available to them or altering the way that they do an activity. Sharing ideas for how to do these everyday tasks […]

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