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This year we wanted to put a new spin on World Arthritis Day so we've done a big social media push for the launch of our latest report the Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Responsibility Deal.

For those of you who haven't seen it yet, the RA Responsibility Deal contains a series ...

Buried within the new Crime and Courts Bill is a section on drug driving that could have a significant, unforeseen impact on patients with RA that are taking long-term medication to manage their chronic pain. As a result, NRAS is now starting to lobby for improvements to the Bill. The new ...

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 ...

It’s the beginning of February. It’s Friday. It’s cold. And I am coming down with a sniffle. I should be thinking about the weekend and a trip I have planned to Bristol, but instead my eyes are trained firmly on a heap of forms with such uninviting titles as ‘Conference Observer’ and ...

I'm going to dispense with the humour and just do a straightforward blog about something important, that is happening right now, which you can help with. So here goes...

Justice for All is the campaign for free legal advice, which is a coalition of almost ...

Unless you've had your head buried in the sand, you are likely to have heard something in the press about the Welfare Reform Bill, which is currently going through the UK Parliament (hint: it's quite controversial).

The news headlines are currently focused around the ...

NRAS and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) are delighted to announce that Health Minister, Paul Burstow MP, has agreed to take part in a live webchat to mark this year’s World Arthritis Day on 12 October.

To coincide with this year’s theme of ‘Move to Improve’, NRAS ...

I normally try and say something humorous, or incorporate an interesting piece of trivia, to start off my blog posts, but on this occasion I thought I would just pinch a quote from someone else to pique your interest:

"Disabled people are disproportionately reliant ...

Here’s a great piece of pub quiz trivia: according to the Press Complaints Commission, which newspaper holds the record for the highest number of complaints about a newspaper article in history? Give up? The answer is the Daily Mail, with a whopping 25,000.

Yes, love it or hate it, ...

I love the 2005 film ‘Thank You for Smoking’. It's about a smooth-talking tobacco lobbyist who marauds across Capitol Hill, boozing and bribing everyone in his path. Great to watch, but probably not the best lobbying tactic to imitate.

Megalomaniac dreams aside, it has been an ...