People with arthritis can’t ignore their pain. Let’s make sure the Government doesn’t, either.
This is why Versus Arthritis has launched the Impossible to Ignore campaign, calling on politicians and policy-makers to address the needs of people with arthritis. Now, your support is needed to demand change.
For many people, lockdown has made living with arthritis even harder. With appointments, treatments and joint replacement surgery delayed, people with arthritis face worsening pain and impacts to their physical and mental health that are impossible to ignore.
Nearly half of the 6,000 people Versus Arthritis surveyed said that their arthritis appointments have been cancelled over the pandemic. Planned surgery has also been affected, with hundreds of thousands of people with arthritis waiting for joint replacement operations. They are struggling in agony, often without information about when they can expect to be treated.
UK governments need to understand that the pain of arthritis is impossible to ignore. Plans need to be in place to resume surgery safely, and assurances that people with arthritis waiting for joint replacements have not been forgotten.
Please visit www.versusarthritis.org/impossibletoignore for more information and to sign the petition.