UK Strategy for Rare Diseases

"This document sets out how NHS England will play its part in delivering the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases in England. A more detailed plan will be built into the five year strategy, for specialised services, currently being developed by NHS England."

UK Strategy for Rare Diseases: NHS England Statement of Intent
NHS England
February 2014

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The UK strategy for rare diseases

"The Strategy aims to ensure that people living with a rare disease have the best quality of evidence based care and treatment that our health and social care systems, working with charities and other organisations, our researchers and industry can provide."

The UK strategy for rare diseases
Department of Health
November 2013

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Forgotten conditions: misdiagnosed and unsupported, how patients are being let down

"Rarer conditions are too often neglected by the health service, leading to reduced quality of life for affected individuals and increased costs for the NHS, the benefits system, employers and patients."

Forgotten conditions: misdiagnosed and unsupported, how patients are being let down
M Weston, J Manning
2020Health.org
September 2012

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