National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society blog

Hello from the newest member of the NRAS team! I joined 7 weeks ago as the new Membership Supervisor and have received such a warm welcome from everyone at NRAS.

I had known of NRAS for a few years before I joined, mainly through a few of my family & friends who suffer ...

It’s been unusually quiet here in the NRAS office this week with a lot of staff members attending the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) conference up in Glasgow. The BSR conference is an annual event and a very important few days in the world of rheumatology. The conference is an ...

Hello hello, another student is asking for help:
Karolina Mazan - km8699@bristol.ac.uk - a medical student at Bristol, is doing an anonymous survey about RA and Pregnancy and would love some feedback to help with her research. Do contact her directly on that email if you think you could ...

I am delighted to tell you that I have been rescued!

Along with four lovely seafaring colleagues in a wee boat, our merry team, The Jilly Rogers – so named after our illustrious Cap’n Jilly, - survived afloat and without starving or falling out – literally as well as ...

Hi everyone



Hello from the helpline team, although I am considering joining my fundraising colleagues as they seem to get all the exciting jobs! I refer of course to all the fantastic events and challenges that our Members and Supporters are involved in ...

NRAS has joined an alliance of patients, professionals, industry and other charities to campaign for action around earlier diagnosis. The new entity is called the Early Diagnosis Alliance and is calling for:

1. Secured ring-fenced funding for early diagnosis implementation for ...

Hi Everyone!

My last blog was in fact my first and now I have already been here six months. Time does actually fly when you’re having fun!

As usual we’ve been rather busy in Fundraising, the last few weeks have been building up to this past weekend ...

This weekend is a very exciting weekend for Fundraising. On Saturday Oli and Ruth (from Fundraising) will be taking part in the National Lottery Olympic Park 5 mile run which is taking place at the Olympic Stadium. I had hoped to get a place but sadly was unsuccessful. We have a team of 4 ...

Sanaa Javed has approached us in search of a subject for her study outlined below. This is not a study conducted by NRAS but we are happy to inform you about it and encourage you to contact Sanaa directly if you would like to pursue being involved in her research.
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Fiona Allan has approached us in search of a subject for her study outlined below. This is not a study conducted by NRAS but we are happy to inform you about it and encourage you to contact Fiona directly if you would like to pursue being the subject of her research.

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