Recently the CMA levied fines of £84 million to those companies that caused a price hike for liothyronine, causing untold distress for many thyroid patients.
Dr Peter Taylor has created a Government Petition requesting that an amount equivalent to a proportion of the fine (1-5%) is made available for thyroid research and support for patients with hypothyroidism.
Can you imagine how much thyroid research can be done with £4,000,000???
I think it's only right that some of that fine should go to thyroid research so do please sign this petition and let's get it to 100,000 signatures so that it is debated in Parliament!
It’s really going up now over 4k have signed I presume people are passing it on, so hopefully it will really boost the numbers further. 100 k seems a huge challenge even so., but fingers crossed….it ought to be possible if you can reach massive numbers of people.
We've been running repeated polls for this petition since it was started.
When a poll first goes out, forum members are emailed about it directly. So you should have received an email today, because I re-ran the poll today. 😊
Signed and taken the opportunity to write to my MP to support this petition too. I remind her when I can of the appalling treatment in my area of Tyne and Wear where Professor Pearse does not allow T3 for any patients. The statistics prove this situation.
I have found Dr. Taylor to be enthusiastic about thyroid issues. He lives in the world of Pearse and yet manages to rise above him, in all ways. I worry about his future in endocrinology due to his enthusiasm. Is Weetman still around? The ‘old guard’ and even the relatively ‘new guard’ Pearse, dull as ditchwater. Roll on new blood. Not forgetting off course our mighty Diogenes. Can hardly wait for his (and his compatriots) book.
It would be ironic if the money went to those two charlatans.
Mind you following their logic of not treating anyone until they are virtually dead, might render their positions untenable - for what is it that they are doing if they have no thyroid patients needing treatment? Also what’s there to research if according to them, no one needs thyroid hormone treatment anymore?
Congratulations on taking us back to the 1870’s - do you think they’ll get an award for it?
I could be wrong but I don’t think Pearse is much of a scientist/researcher. I have only come across truly appalling research with his name attached. I know he supervises students, which is in itself very worrying. He gets to train junior doctors not to help patients as well as actually ridicule patients directly. What joy for him! Weetman I hope is old enough to be gone.
I wonder if they would/should consider all our extra costs of T3 or even better our claims for downright negligence going back many years?
Ah yes I remember this one. Another truly dreadful piece of ‘work’. And of course it’s dated 2023. They could not make it any clearer how deeply they despise thyroid patients.
I was the 74th person to sign this petition after seeing it on Twitter (X) yesterday. If everybody (UK based) on this forum signed it Peter Taylor would easily get it past the 100,000 signatures necessary for a debate in parliament, so get signing, please!
Excellent I was 299 earlier today. I do hope people get family etc to sign too. Other good petitions have failed because of lack of support. I do hope this one gains even more momentum!
I've signed (800 now) but I'm concerned at the modesty of the request and feel that the rest of the fine should remain in the NHS and mostly earmarked for non pharma health education
There is no way for us to alert all members of this forum.
This issue has arisen before and it is clearly not an approach HealthUnlocked feel is appropriate. And I know I would not want to be bombarded with regular emails trying to tell me to do something! However frustrating it is in our current situation.
That's a shame. I wouldn't mind receiving emails asking for help with something like this but I realise everyone's different. While I'm here Helvella, I'd like to thank you for all the work you put into the NHS Drug Tariff list and other interesting topics you bring up.
I'm doing some shameless plugging of this thyroid research petition ~ (it's asking the govt to give some of the £84Million CMA fine from the price hike of Liothyronine T3 to thyroid research) .
Please consider signing and SHARING this petition if you haven't already done so .. if you have signed already THANKYOU
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