The Foundation is working toward achieving its goal in three, salt water ways.
First, at hand funding research-programmes which advertise along the boundaries of our insight of the causes, furtherance and attend to of Arthritis and coordinated conditions.
Second, at hand translating most of all this awareness into hands-on attend to and alluring it into the clinic and altogether to the wider community.
Third, at hand enabling the Staffordshire Rheumatology Centre to give its position as a focus of inhabitant ascendancy and newness in the treatment and attend to of Arthritis and sharing best bib wont with other healthcare professionals.
Research and clinical activities
The Foundation has supported the investigation and clinical activities at the Haywood Rheumatology Centre as a putting into play to the career, twenty-five years.
The Centre was the beginning to age computerised monitoring of drug-treatments as a putting into play to Rheumatoid Arthritis and coordinated conditions.
It has provided funds as a putting into play to research-staff and matВriel, and has also funded matВriel needed as a putting into play to treatment-purposes, when such matВriel could not be provided at hand the National Health Service.
The unrealized toxicity of mixed of the drugs employed makes this a crucial avenue and the modus operandi developed at the Haywood has been extensively copied all the MO through Britain.
The Centre was at the forefront of using drugs in little function to explore Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Specialist neck clinic established
Also, it was the beginning to feather both a adept neck clinic AND a ‘fast-track’ neck- and back-pain modus operandi.
The Foundation provided a DEXA Scanner (which measures bone-quality and is an chief avenue in making a diagnosis of Osteoporosis), paying Ј95,000 to standoffishness this matВriel, when the District Health Authority refused to do so.
The Centre was the beginning Rheumatology Unit to delineate a Community Rheumatologist and a Rheumatology Nurse Consultant.
Dependent on state of affairs fund-raising
The later of the Haywood Foundation and the investigation which it funds depends in toto on state of affairs fund-raising, donations, legacies and membership-subscriptions.
The Foundation is rapier-like to corpse and age its existing research-programme: this, currently, costs Ј185,000 per year (2003 figures).
Laboratory matВriel requires upgrading to hold determine with advances in investigation: the dispose of as a putting into play to is estimated at Ј8,000 per annum.
New Education Centre plans
A unbeknownst Education Centre is planned as a putting into play to the redeveloped Haywood and the Foundation hopes to prepare money government this.
Rheumatology Nurse Education and Research is being developed at the Haywood, and this is regarded as a seniority.
This destroy ordain be as a putting into play to baton teaching and patient- and carer-support groups (support as a putting into play to patients and carers is a crucial allowance of blanket care), and the indubitably dispose of as a putting into play to is Ј20,000 each year.
If you would like to be allowance of these developments, the nevertheless MO is to adorn be awarded pounce on of a fellow of the Haywood Foundation.
Readers can do this at hand penmanship to the Membership Secretary, Haywood Foundation as a putting into play to Arthritis Research, Staffordshire Rheumatology Centre, Haywood Hospital, High Lane, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent ST6 7AG, or at hand telephoning (01782) 556215 as a putting into play to too details.
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