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Therapists in MS brings together allied health professionals who share a special interest in multiple sclerosis: helping us to share ideas, enhance skills and develop holistic care for people living with MS.
The Therapists in MS mission is to improve daily life for people living with MS today.
We use the TiMS network to share ideas and best practice in order to enhance the care we provide to people living with MS. We come together at regular meetings, courses and study days.
Who we are
The MS Trust is a UK charity that believes that no one should have to manage MS alone. We provide trusted information to help people with MS live the best life possible; train and educate MS health professionals to offer the best care and fund MS nurses in the areas of greatest need.
The MS Trust produces reliable information on a condition that had me scared out of my wits at the start! By helping them you help any number of people like me who are diagnosed with MS and don't know where to turn.
Our information service provides free information for everyone affected by MS, giving them support to take more control of their MS.
We are also committed to supporting and developing MS specialist services in the UK to help provide the best care for people living with MS.
The MS Trust is dedicated to making life better today for people with MS. We produce MS information you can trust and support the MS specialist health professionals you need.
We work hard to produce evidence to indentify what is required and demonstrate the value of specialist services. Once services are in place, we provide specialist education and continuing professional development for health and social care professionals to ensure high quality services are maintained. Many people assume this will be provided by the NHS. Sadly it is not, which is why the MS Trust's education programme is a vital factor in building MS specialist services in the UK.
The MS Trust has long campaigned to increase the number of MS specialists in the UK, but there are still not enough. The MS Trust plays a crucial role in protecting and developing these specialists. We offer one to one mentoring, advocacy to specialists facing reviews of their services and a range of tools to help them audit their own services and to demonstrate their own value.
Helping you to help people with MS
If you would like to take part in a sponsored challenge or organise your own fundraising event, our friendly fundraising team will be on hand to give you lots of help and guidance along the way.
You will have a dedicated person to contact who will provide you with lots of advice and tips on how to maximise your fundraising, as well as any fundraising materials you might need such as sponsor forms, collecting tins and t-shirts.
We are also here to support you if you want to discuss ways to donate to the MS Trust or if you would like to leave a gift in your will.
has relapsing remitting MS and was diagnosed in 1997. A qualified solicitor, he is Director and General Counsel of a company that develops electricity generating stations and previously spent more than 25 years in private practice with large commercial law firms in London and Birmingham. He knows that he owes a huge debt to the unfailing support he receives from close family and the specialist MS team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
have long been associated with the MS Trust. Whilst Laurence is well known for his flamboyance and flair from his television appearances, fewer people may realise Jackie's influence in their design business. They have donated designs for a range of cards not only in memory of Laurence's mother who had MS, but also for Jackie's mother who was recently diagnosed. Laurence and Jackie bring to the MS Trust a 'can do' approach summed up in their motto 'Don't dream it. Be it'.
With help from other trustees, specialist doctors, nurses, therapists, dieticians and people with MS, we put together our first publication - an information pack particularly targeting the newly diagnosed. It was an attempt to offer answers to the questions people had - the answers which were so hard to find. The challenge was to reach newly diagnosed people and so in 1995 we sent the information pack to every neurologist in the UK.
Because beta interferon is self-injected, the first pharmaceutical company to receive a license recognised that additional nursing support would be necessary and recruited 30 agency nurses across the UK. With other drugs also awaiting licenses, there would soon be more non-NHS nurses - at a time when there were only three MS specialist nurses working in the NHS in the whole of the UK. The challenge was to unite and bring together all nurses to improve care for everyone with MS, not just those eligible for the new drugs. For this reason, the Royal College of Nursing called a meeting of the company, the Department of Health, MS Society and MS Trust. All recognised the value that MS nurses could bring and their scarcity; all recognised that key to their success was an education programme to increase knowledge in a relatively new (for nurses) disease area. Either the MS Society or the MS Trust had to take on this educational role.
Once services are in place, we provide specialist education and continuing professional development for health and social care professionals to ensure high quality services are maintained. Many people assume that this will be provided by the NHS. Sadly it is not, which is why the MS Trust’s education programme is a vital factor in building MS specialist services in the UK.
Worse still, some existing MS nurses are at risk. The MS Trust’s MS Nurse Support Programme plays a crucial role in protecting and developing these specialists. We offer one to one mentoring, advocacy to specialists facing reviews of their services and a range of tools to help them audit their own services and to demonstrate their own value.
