T3 Campaign

Together with our thyroid partners, we ran a survey in November 2019 to look into the prescribing practices of CCGs across England since the NHS England guidance was published – the T3 Prescribing Survey 2019. … Read More »T3 Prescribing Survey

We are working hard to ensure that patients can access the thyroid medication they need such as liothyronine, hence our #T3Campaign.  If you want to find out more about our #T3Campaign, you can find all… Read More »Our #T3Campaign

Thyroid UK and other thyroid groups have been working with RMOC to clarify the guidance they published last November. We all felt that their guidance was not clear enough for CCGs and clinicians in respect… Read More »We are working with RMOC to clarify the guidance they published in November 2018

You may be aware that a coalition of thyroid organisations, including the British Thyroid Association (BTA), worked together on a Dossier for the Lord O’Shaughnessy in respect of the harm being done to patients in… Read More »Article in RMOC newsletter

Thyroid UK, along with other thyroid groups including the British Thyroid Association, has worked on a dossier that was requested by the Lord O’Shaughnessy, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. He wanted to… Read More »Lord O’Shaugnessy Dossier

The dossier of evidence requested in the Regret Debate led by Lord Hunt in respect of liothyronine has been worked on for many weeks by Thyroid UK, The Thyroid Trust, Improve Thyroid Treatment Campaign Group,… Read More »The dossier has been sent to Lord O’Shaugnessy

A very good meeting was held at the House of Commons with Thyroid Trust, ITT, Midlands Thyroid Support, Norfolk Thyroid Group, TPA, BTF and BTA. It was agreed that we would all work on a… Read More »Loose coalition forms to gather evidence for Lord O’Shaugnessy

As you may know, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath led a regret debate in the House of Lords on Wednesday 20th June, which went really well. What you may not know is that the person who… Read More »The Regret debate in The House of Lords

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath has secured a Motion to regret – Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) Regulations 2018 on Wednesday 20th June in the House of Lords at around 7pm. The actual Motion is: Lord Hunt… Read More »Lord Hunt secures debate in The House of Lords

Thyroid UK and ITT travelled to London yesterday to meet with NHS England and NHS Clinical Commissioning to voice our concerns about T3. The meeting was attended by Julie Woods, CEO of Clinical Commissioning and… Read More »Meeting with NHS England and NHS Clinical Commissioning

An adjournment debate has been tabled by Vince Cable MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats for Monday 21st May at 2.30pm, so we have designed a template email that is shorter than the other one… Read More »Parliamentary debate on hypothyroidism

We need your help! Please contact your MP We are pleased to announce that Thyroid UK has been working with ITT (Improve Thyroid Health) and TPA (Thyroid Patient Advocacy) on a joint report entitledImproving T3… Read More »Improving T3 Prescription in the UK – a Joint Campaign on behalf of Thyroid Patients

NHS England gave its decision at a board meeting this morning about whether liothyronine will be deprescribed by the NHS. Read a transcript of the meeting  Liothyronine  Of those respondents who either agreed or disagreed with… Read More »NHS Board decides on the question of deprescribing T3