Versus Arthritis is the UK's largest charity dedicated to supporting people with arthritis. It was launched in September 2018, following the legal merger of the two leading arthritis charities in the UK, Arthritis Research UK and Arthritis Care in November 2017.[1]
According to research, 10 million people in the UK are affected by arthritis. It affects almost three in ten men and women over the age of 55.[2] Versus Arthritis works to help them to remain active by funding research, campaigning and providing information for patients, the public and health professionals.
Arthur Mainwaring Bowen founded the British Rheumatic Association (BRA) on 1 February 1947 at the age of 25. By October, the association had 554 prospective members.[3] Bowen’s awareness of the needs of people with arthritis began when, at the age of 19, he was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis. Meeting other young people with arthritis during long stays in hospital opened Bowen’s eyes to the isolation they often felt. As well as his charity work, Bowen had a career as a qualified solicitor. He married Helen Patricia in 1953. Together, they had one son and one daughter. Bowen died in his home on 31 January 1980.[4]
By this time, the charity had grown into a national organisation with a wide range of services for people with arthritis and was renamed Arthritis Care. In that year, Arthritis News was published for the first time. It ran to 12 pages and had an initial print-run of 35,000. Jane Asher became president of Arthritis Care in 2003.[5]
At the time of the merger, Arthritis Care was the UK's largest arthritis charity and ran four national offices (in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England) with activities coordinated by an office in London. The CEO was Judi Rhys.[6]
Arthritis Research UKedit
The Empire Rheumatism Council was founded by Dr Will Copeman and other like-minded doctors on 10 February 1936 as a voluntary organisation to finance research into arthritis and all rheumatic diseases. It was incorporated in 1951 and changed its name to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council for Research in Great Britain and the Commonwealth in 1964 and the Arthritis Research Campaign in 1998, before becoming Arthritis Research UK in 2010[7] as part of a drive to raise the profile of arthritis research and the organisation itself. This also reduced the potential for confusion with a plethora of other charitable groups using the ARC initials.
The Canadian Arthritis Society, Australian Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation and New Zealand Rheumatism Association were affiliated organisations.
Dr Stewart Adams, discoverer of Ibuprofen, opened the Arthritis Research UK Pain Centre in Nottingham, which aims to understand pain and to come up with more effective ways of dealing with it.
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