Fighting Lyme and Associated Diseases
Seven outstanding volunteers have completed marathons in aid of the Caudwell LymeCo research fund this year, setting a new record as the first people in the UK to run marathons to raise money for Lyme disease research. Together they have raised tens of thousands of pounds, which will go towards vital research to help find […]
Read moreThe All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Lyme disease hosted a ’round table’ meeting for Lyme disease patient group representatives in the House of Commons on Tuesday 23rd January 2018. Caudwell LymeCo was represented at the meeting by the charity’s Chief Executive Veronica Hughes, to outline the charity’s requests for the parliamentary group to consider. […]
Read moreDecember 2017 An independent enquiry into Lyme disease, commissioned by Jeremy Hunt on behalf of the Department of Health, has just been published. Origin of the Independent Enquiry Back in spring 2016, the founder and sponsor of Caudwell LymeCo Charity, John Caudwell, and the charity’s Chief Executive, Veronica Hughes, met Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and […]
Read moreWhen the Wintour family found out that one of their sons, Adam, had Lyme disease, they decided to do something constructive about it. So they organised the Bowood House Triathlon. The tireless organiser, Laura, press-ganged most members of the connected Broadhurst, Wintour and Lambton families into participating – somewhat against their will, we have been […]
Read moreYou can now raise money for desperately needed Lyme disease research without actually donating a penny. All you have to do is some online shopping! Go to the Easyfundraising.com Caudwell LymeCo page. Sign up as a Caudwell LymeCo Charity supporter. Download the Easyfundraising browser button, so you remember to go to your shopping websites VIA the easyfundraising […]
Read moreThis September Rob Berridge ran the Windsor Half Marathon and raised over £700 for Caudwell LymeCo. He became the very first of a growing number of fundraisers who are volunteering to run marathons in aid of Lyme disease research. The money Rob raised will be spent on desperately needed research into Lyme disease. Lyme has […]
Read moreCaudwell Lyme Disease CEO, Veronica Hughes, has been offered a position as a lay member of the NICE guidelines committee for Lyme disease. The committee will meet regularly for approximately the next two years, to evaluate and discuss published research on Lyme disease and use this as the basis for new, evidence-based treatment guidelines for […]
Read moreJohn Caudwell and Veronica Hughes met Professor Chris Whitty and scientific colleagues at the Department of Health on 23rd May 2016. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the independent enquiry into Lyme disease which Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, and C.E.O. of NHS England Simon Stevens, have asked Professor Whitty to commission following their […]
Read moreJohn Caudwell and Veronica Hughes visited Public Health England’s scientific campus at Porton Down in Wiltshire, including a tour of the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL) where the specialist Lyme disease testing for England and Wales is carried out at the request of NHS doctors. We met Professor Derrick Crook, Director of PHE’s National […]
Read moreCaudwell LymeCo charity ran a survey of UK Lyme disease patients from February to April, 2016. The survey asked patients about the care they had received for their Lyme disease on the NHS. We have produced a PDF document which gives the aggregated responses to each question in the survey. Please note: The information and […]
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