ARMA’s main channel of communication with its members is this website. As a key component of our service to the wider UK arthritis and musculoskeletal community, we are currently updating our website to ensure we continue to provide a valuable and easy-to-use resource.
Standards Activities
News about development activities of the Standards of Care give recommendations to local service commissioners and providers for services for the main groups of musculoskeletal conditions.
We greatly value the input of our licensees and want all members of the community to play an active role in this vital activity.
We’ll consult you on any changes that may affect your condition and the wider comunity – ensuring standards remain high, yet achievable.
Commissioning News
News of our engagement at all levels from the Commissioning Board to the Consortia and Healthwatch.
ARMA supports the development of the NHS commissioning board and welcomes their responsibility for specialised commissioning. ARMA encurages the wider engagement of patients and users and promotes the greater involvement of clinicians in commissioning activities.
ARMA through its wider membership is keen to become more involved in the development of outcome measures, implementation of evidence based care pathways and commissioning.
eCampains
Please complete the below fields to sign up to our e-updates and receive the latest ARMA Campaigns news and actions.
We’ll send you a monthly e-newsletter with news from our campaigns, ways to get invovled and information about other things going on in the community. We’ll also get in touch when there are campaign actions we need your help with, usually around once a month.
We collect your address so that we can make sure we’re only sending you actions that are relevant to where you live.
New ARMA website
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website!
Our goal with the redesign of our website was to make the information that we give to you easier to find and more timely. If you have any questions or comments about the site in general, or anything in particular, please let us know.
New Features
The website includes interactive features that will allow members and user to sign up for our monthly newsletter A4T.
The home page also features ...
ARMA Postcards
What is an e-postcard - it is a notification when new content is published on the ARMA website.
To receive an ARMA e-postcard you must first have registered as a user. To subscribe is quite simple, go to your profile, click the link 'Your Subscriptions'. You will then be presented with a page of options, please select the topic area of interest.
If you have subscribed to a topic, then when new content is published an email will be sent with a summary text ...
The National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (NASS) is officially launching their telephone helpline for people affected by ankylosing spondylitis (AS)
From 1 September 2011, the Helpline will be open between 0900 and 1200, Monday to Friday and will be staffed by Sally Dickinson, the Information Officer at NASS. Sally, who is also responsible for the published medical information and guidance, will be well supported by the team of medical advisers to NASS that include rheumatologists and physiotherapists.
The type of queries about ...
Membership of ARMA
We welcome applications from organisations working in the field of arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions.
Membership rates are calculated on a sliding scale depending upon size/income.
Joining ARMA gives you the chance to add your voice to a growing, well-regarded umbrella organisation and helps to ensure that our policy and campaigning work reflects the needs of your constituency.
Member organisations also benefit from sharing information and knowledge and strengthening their links with other organisations in the field.
Other benefits include:
Opportunities to participate ...
The brief
ARMA is the umbrella body providing a collective voice for the arthritis and musculoskeletal community in the UK. ARMA's main channel of communication to members is their website.
As a key component of their service to arthritis and musculoskeletal community in the UK, they wanted to ensure they were providing a valuable and easy-to-use resource. ARMA have completed consultation excercise with its members to gain an understanding what members and non-members wanted from this resource, and then to re-design the site ...
Trials of a new medicine, called Tocilizumab, suggest that it is thrr times as effective at halting the progression of rheumatoid arthritis as the standard therapy given to most patients.
Tocilizumab is a laboratory-made antibody, which works by targeting a biological signalling pathway linked to inflammation and the disease. Rheumatoid arthritis, the crippling auto-immune disease which attacks the joints, is the biggest cause of disability in the UK.
The drug was already licensed for the treatment of adults. Tocilizumab is the first drug to be specifically ...
Arthritis Day photo-competition and inspire and motivate others with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) to become more physically active and 'Move to Improve'
If you have an RMD you can enter a good quality photograph of yourself participating in your favourite physical activity, exercise or sport with a short statement about how this helps you overcome some of the physical challenges of your condition and how being active improves your life (http://www.worldarthritisday.org/action-shot-photo-competition)
Eligibility and prizes
The competition is open to all people with RMDs ...
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