North East Lupus Group: support for people living with lupus

Trouble getting the brand of hydroxychloroquine you take from your pharmacy? The topic of the month page sets out what Lupus UK advises.

Accounts of recent meetings and of the fundraising done for Lupus UK are on the events and fundraising page.

North East Lupus Group is part of the national charity Lupus UK. The charity has more than 5,300 members and a number of regional groups around the country. They arrange medical talks, publish local newsletters, set up local occasions and organise fundraising events. This group gives support to people with lupus, and to their families, in the north east of the United Kingdom.

Lupus UK also produces a national magazine with articles, letters, reports and photographs, and it pays for research grants and specialist lupus nurses. The group helps the charity to spread awareness of lupus with its publicity material and writes to local hospitals regularly to update them on its work.

Doctors and nurses diagnose and treat lupus. The group's own view is that the best way to learn to manage life with the condition is to talk to people who have learnt to live with lupus rather than fighting against it. The charity's own website has more about the national picture.

The group is on Twitter as @NorthEastLupus and has a Facebook page that anyone is welcome to join.