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  • Letter to patients from Rare Disease UK

    What is your rare disease experience? Please spare 10 minutes to give us a clearer understanding of the impacts of rare disease

    (Dear RDUK member,)

    As you know, there is still an urgent need to better understand the rare disease community and the needs of the patient and medical communities. This is why Genetic Alliance UK and Rare Disease UK have decided to participate in an initiative being led by Shire Human Genetic Therapies that will help to identify and bring increased awareness to the myriad of issues facing the rare disease community.

    Shire is surveying patients, carers, physicians, payors and thought leaders in the UK and the United States to identify and quantify some of the major health, psycho-social, societal and economic impacts of rare diseases. Survey results will be published in a Rare Disease Impact Report this year and we believe the findings from this Report will truly help guide future research and education for affected patients and their families.

    Please send this survey on to those in your organisation affected by a rare disease. The survey is aiming to close by early February.

    If you have 10 minutes to spare, we are interested in hearing about your rare disease experience – either as a patient living with a disease or as a carer of someone with a rare disease. You can complete the survey here http://survey5.orcinternational.com/...r1=53&i.user2=

    We want to capture as many survey responses as possible to gain insights from a multitude of voices. We hope you will join us in this important undertaking.

    Kind Regards,
    Alastair Kent OBE
    Chair of Rare Disease UK
    t. 020 7704 3141
    e. devinder@raredisease.org.uk
    RDUK Secretariat
    Rare Disease UK
    Unit 4D, Leroy House
    436 Essex Road
    N1 3QP

    Rare Disease UK is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from its industry members. A list of these members are available on Members page.
    http://www.raredisease.org.uk/
    Paediatric ocular rosacea ~ primum non nocere

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    Thanks LM! I hope all our UK members will participate in this survey... it's not a big time investment but could really be helpful to get dry eye into the report they are going to publish.
    Rebecca Petris
    The Dry Eye Foundation
    dryeyefoundation.org
    800-484-0244

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      Originally posted by Rebecca Petris View Post
      Thanks LM! I hope all our UK members will participate in this survey... it's not a big time investment but could really be helpful to get dry eye into the report they are going to publish.
      I think this is so important for all UK sufferers as autologous serum is not available as a regular treatment on the National Health Service. We need to campaign for this.

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