Diary Note: Nottingham Muscle Group Meeting, UK

Main Category: Muscular Dystrophy / ALS
Article Date: 23 Feb 2010 - 0:00 PDT

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What

Families affected by muscle disease in Nottingham and the East Midlands are meeting to hear how care and services in their region will be improved.

Speaking at the meeting will be Kate Caston and Christine Richardson from the East Midlands NHS Specialised Commissioning Group. They were called to Parliament in January to explain to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Muscular Dystrophy (APPG) why East Midlands services for muscle disease patients had not improved as much as in other areas of the UK.

Friday's meeting will be a chance for patients and families affected by these services to ask what has been done to improve local muscle disease healthcare and what will be done in future.

Also lending his support to the Muscle Group on Friday will be South Derbyshire MP Mark Todd, who came to the APPG meeting at Parliament in January to question Kate Caston and Christine Richardson on East Midlands muscle disease health services.

As usual, the meeting will be a chance for families affected by muscle disease to share their experiences and advice with others in the same position.

Who

Kate Caston, Director of the East Midlands Specialised Commissioning Group (SCG)

Christine Richardson, Head of Strategy and Planning at the East Midlands SCG

Mark Todd, MP for South Derbyshire

Patients and families affected by muscle disease

When

Friday 26 February 2010, 11am - 1pm

Where

Ramada Jarvis Nottingham Hotel, Bostocks Lane, Long Eaton, Nottingham, NG10 4EP

Anyone interested in attending the meeting or who wants to find out more about the work of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign should go to http://www.muscular-dystrophy.org.

Source
Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

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