Campaign news
- 6 July 2009
MP pledges support for local campaigners Laura Moffatt, MP for Crawley, pledged her support for local families living with muscle disease when they met in her constituency on Monday 6 July. - 4 July 2009
Fighting for access to respite care in South West The South West Muscle Group gathered in Taunton for their summer meeting on Saturday 4 July, and agreed to launch a new campaign to improve access to respite care in the South West. - 26 June 2009
Battling to fight NHS South Central neglect The South Central Muscle Group pledge to fight on for better neuromuscular services, despite local NHS commissioners telling them that they are “not a priority”. - 23 June 2009
NHS chiefs pledge to improve services NHS chiefs pledge to take action to improve specialist services for people with muscle disease at the latest All Party Parliamentary Group Inquiry session. - 11 June 2009
Muscular Dystrophy Campaign "highly commended" at 2009 Charity Awards The judges at the 2009 Charity Awards praised the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign’s Building on the Foundations campaign as outstanding. - 11 May 2009
Eastbourne mum leads fight for better services in South East Phillippa Farrant, whose son has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, will spearhead the campaign for vital neuromuscular service improvements in the region through the new South East Coast Muscle Group. - 6 May 2009
"Strengthen vital services" in South Central This was the clear message from campaigners and clinicians in this NHS region at the launch of the new campaigning South Central Muscle Group. - 28 April 2009
Fighting for essential research Leading experts in the field of muscular dystrophy research gave crucial evidence at the fifth evidence session of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Muscular Dystrophy Inquiry, which was chaired by Dave Anderson MP. - 27 April 2009
South West campaigners carry on their fight The South West Muscle Group met on Saturday 25 April and pledged to keep pressuring local NHS commissioners to speedily implement the new £1 million investment in neuromuscular services in the region. - 23 April 2009
West Midlands campaign a "cauldron of fire" This was the predicted effect by one campaigner at the launch of the new campaigning West Midlands Muscle Group.
