The British Psoriatic Arthritis Consortium (BritPACT) worked with the James Lind Alliance (JLA) to run a priority setting partnership (PSP). They have created a national top 10 list of research priorities for psoriatic arthritis, agreed upon by people with psoriatic arthritis, carers and clinicians. This marks the culmination of the psoriasis arthritis PSP.

Bowel Research UK has joined the Connect Immune Research initiative, which includes the type 1 diabetes charity JDRF, the MS Society, Versus Arthritis, the British Society for Immunology, Alopecia UK, the Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Alliance (PAPAA) and Coeliac UK.

Skin 'n' Bones Connection issue 53 is now available. The journal is aimed at people affected by psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Guselkumab (Tremfya), taken with or without methotrexate, has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and is available on the NHS.

See our new video that is part of our strategy to raise awareness of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis and includes our mission to look and delve deeper into the causes of psoriatic disease by funding research projects. 

People who use Co-codamol 30/500 Effervescent Tablets, widely used for pain relief, are today being asked to check the batch number on the labels of packs to ensure they are not one of 4,464 packs which are being recalled due to safety concerns.

The new version 7 of PAPAA's popular Psoriasis in Practice digital resource online training programme is now available until 29 April 2022.  The programme is aimed at helping frontline healthcare providers to manage and care for people affected by the skin condition psoriasis, and its associated psoriatic arthritis.

Are you aged 18 or over and living with chronic pain? Are you interested in taking part in a FREE online 8-week intervention?  

This is research project being carried out by a Masters student, if you are interested, read the full request.

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The British Psoriatic Arthritis Consortium (BritPACT) is working with the James Lind Alliance (JLA) to run a priority setting partnership (PSP). They are looking to create a national top 10 list of research priorities for psoriatic arthritis.

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