Give more funding for thyroid research and patients after price hike

[helvella]

Rarely do we see petitions which are quite so easy to support.

Pete Taylor @DrPeteTaylor

Lovely people please could you sign this petition and share widely. Thyroid disease does not get sufficient funding despite being very common, this may help address this -Thx

Petition: Give more funding for thyroid research and patients after price hike

Link to petition:

petition.parliament.uk/peti...

I'm sure others will also post about this!

(Restricted to those with UK addresses.)

[Thyroid17]

Done. Thanks for sharing!

[RedApple Administrator]

Excellent, Thanks for posting!

[amala57]

Signed & shared

[Nat107]

Thank you, signed

[TiggerMe]

Thrice done!

[humanbean]

Signed

[waveylines]

Signed... Thanks Helvella. I think they should have the whole fine amount for research though.... 😂🤣😉

[Delgor]

helvella - looks like Lyn Mynott has also now put up a petition to be signed?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Delgor]

Same petition, methinks!

[Delgor in reply to helvella]

Indeed, that is why I mentioned it in case one of you was hoping to keep it all in one place. Perhaps you should mention it to Lynn in case she thinks she is getting a poor response 😁

[tattybogle]

done

[Puddleperson]

Fantastic, thank you - signed

[11Ananke11]

Signed and shared. Thanks!

[Sparklingsunshine]

Thanks for the head's up, signed.

[Jumbelina]

How is the rest of the money being spent?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Jumbelina]

I don't know. But most fines end up simply going to the treasury.

[Nonamefree]

Just caught up on my emails! If you read the government privacy policy linked to the petition, section 3, how data is used, it states your postcode is used to count how many people sign from different areas. Since we live in a postcode lottery as far as NHS resources are concerned it would help us all if we could get signatures from as many areas as possible. Just a thought. It might encourage others

[Pasionaria]

And the first response is in and includes this sentence: "The Government funds research on health and social care through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). NIHR funds and supports research into hyperthyroidism through its research infrastructure and research programmes. This includes research on the broad range of conditions that may affect the function of the thyroid gland, including hypo- and hyper-thyroidism, thyroid cancer and thyroid removal following surgery." When you go to the NIHR website to see what funding opportunities there are currently for metabolic and endocrine research, there are NONE.

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Pasionaria]

It 100% smacks of them having simply fulfilled their obligation to respond. Accuracy doesn't come into it. They've written a page of garbage, but no matter. 😡