Although RA Awareness Week 2025 has come to a close, NRAS’s mission to raise awareness about Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) continues every day.
NRAS was delighted to see over 2000 people using the Is it RA? Symptom Checker – a tool that should empower thousands more people to take the next step in seeking support from their healthcare professionals.
But the work doesn’t stop there. The symptom checker is now available permanently to help as many people as possible get the answers they need.…
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Mark your diaries for RA Awareness Week 2025, which is taking place September 15th – 19th 2025, with the theme centred around teaching people about the symptoms of RA.
Please join NRAS for their next online event on Wednesday 30th October 2024, 7pm. The subject for this month’s NRAS Live is eye complications in adults with RA and children with JIA.
This year for Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week 2024 (16-22 September) the theme was #STOPtheStereotype, focusing on dispelling the frustrating stereotypes that surround this incurable, invisible condition. The 450,000 people living in the UK with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) face people making assumptions about their condition, hearing comments along the lines of ‘you look fine how can you be unwell?’, ‘you are far too young to have arthritis’, ‘it’s just your joints getting old?’ amongst many others. 
Join NRAS on 13 October 2022, 9:30am-4:00pm, at Leicester Racecourse for the Rheumatoid Arthritis Mela event for the South Asian community.
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the delivery of healthcare services, creating challenges for healthcare professionals and people living with musculoskeletal conditions. Patients are increasingly required to monitor their own disease activity and report on their condition during remote or virtual consultations.
In January 2020, NICE published an update on the