What does CAT do?..

Our charity raises money to help overcome these handicaps to the better treatment of young people with JIA. Our efforts are currently focussed on University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospitals (UCLH and GOSH respectively) paediatric and adolescent rheumatology departments. Children with JIA are treated at GOSH progressing to UCLH at puberty (often a daunting experience rather like moving from primary to secondary education). We are already providing financial support to appoint a clinical nurse specialist to join the rheumatology team under the leadership of Professor Patricia Woo, CBE.

OUR CONTRIBUTION £2,000 per month


They also need a research assistant to ‘do the paperwork’ and tackle all the administrative chores that currently take up the doctors and nurses time.
......COST £ 30,000 per year.  We need to find £15,000 pa with the other half of the cost coming from another charity.

Exercise and lots of physical treatment is vital to keep joints moving and minimise the damage from arthritis. They need a specialist physiotherapist on the team to give more and better treatment.
...... COST £35,000 per year.

Your cash will be used to ensure that young people with arthritis get the standard of care they need so that they can progress to adulthood with the best possible chance of a full and successful life. Finally we are concerned about charity expenses and how much ends up where it is needed. Our charity is run by volunteers, nobody is paid, there are no professional fund raisers.


ALL YOUR ££££S WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Dr Debajit Sen is a Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology at University College and Great Ormond Street Hospitals and is the clinical lead for Adolescent Rheumatology. He says:

"I cannot emphasise enough the crucial role the Children's Arthritis Trust has played in the appointment of our new adolescent rheumatology nurse specialist, Christine Rawcliffe. She is the first of her kind in the UK. The support from the Children's Arthritis Trust is helping us improve the care that we can deliver to children and young people with rheumatological disease."