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Date: 21 May 2013
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Support groups
ABC – After Breast Care
Held on the second Wednesday of every month (except August), 19:00-21:00 in the Cancer Centre, QEH.
Action on Pain (AOP)
AOP is a national charity providing support for people affected by chronic pain, either as a sufferer or a carer/relative.
Telephone: 01760 725993
Helpline: 0845 603 1593
Email: info@action-on-pain.co.uk
Arthritis Care
A support group for people with arthritis.
Telephone: 0121 475 2959 / 0121 382 6143
Behçet's Syndrome Society
The Behçet's Syndrome Society aims to provide support and information for sufferers and their carers. The society provides financial aid for sufferers in need.
Behçet's Syndrome Society
43 Parkgate Crescent
Hadley Wood
Barnet
Herts, EN4 0NW
Helpline: 0845 130 7329
Email: info@behcetsdisease.org.uk
Birmingham and West Midlands Pituitary Group
As part of The Pituitary Foundation, the group offer support and information to pituitary patients, their relatives, friends and carers.
The group hold three to four meetings a year on Saturday mornings at QEHB. Meetings feature a guest speaker discussing topics that patients will find interesting and helpful.
For more information about the group, including dates of future meetings, please visit:
Birmingham Arthritis resource Centre
The resource centre is located at Birmingham Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Central Birmingham.
Telephone: 0121 464 2708
Brain Tumour UK Support Group
The Birmingham support group is open to brain tumour patients, carers and family members and provides support, information and an opportunity to meet with others.
The group meet on the third Monday of every month between 12:00 and 14:00 in the Education Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
For more information on the support group please contact Sue Wreglesworth or Rosemary Wormington:
Sue Wreglesworth
Telephone: 07717 175 236
Email: Sue.Wreglesworth@braintumouruk.org.uk
Rosemary Wormington
Telephone: 07546 912 594
Email: Support.Midlands@hammerout.co.uk
Breast Clinical Nurse Specialists
Telephone: 0121 627 2203
Breathe Easy
The British Lung Foundation's network of support groups for people living with long term lung conditions, and their carers.
There are a number of local groups in the West Midlands.
Telephone: 0116 249 5780
Email: midlands@blf.org.uk
British Sjogren's Syndrome Association
Support group for sufferers of the auto-immune rheumatic disease.
Telephone: 0121 455 6549
Burns support group
Meets on the first Monday of each month, except August and December, in the Plastics Seminar Room at Selly Oak Hospital. For further information, please contact Chris Martin or Gill Window.
Telephone: 0121 627 8779
Busy B's
Support group for people with stomas and bowel disease.
Telephone: 0121 442 3680 (answer phone)
Cystitis & Overactive Bladder Foundation
946 Bristol Road South
Northfield
Birmingham, B31 2LQ
Telephone: 0121 476 1333
Email: alison@cobfoundation.org
Epilepsy Action
Have you, or someone close to you, been diagnosed with epilepsy? If so, the Epilepsy Action group meet in the Cafe of Solihull Library & Arts Complex for tea, coffee and a chat.
If you want to meet and talk to other people living with epilepsy, please join the group on the second Saturday of every month from 14:00 – 16:00.
For more information contact Julie Clark:
Telephone: 01684 577 554
Email: jclark@epilepsy.org.uk
Get-a-head
Fundraising and support group for patients who have had head and neck cancer.
Telephone: 0121 371 5046
Grown-up Congential Heart Patients' Association
Supports young people and adults born with a heart condition.
Telephone: 0800 854 759
Haemochromatosis Support Group
The Haemochromatosis Support Group was setup to fill the gap in the provision of care for patients with the condition in the West Midlands area. The group have regular meetings which include guest speakers in an informative but informal manner. For information on the group's next meeting please see the contact details or website below:
Telephone: 0121 457 8986
Email: Info@HaemochromatosisWM.org.uk
Headstart Birmingham
Aneurysm and arteriovenous malformation support group. Meetings are held on the first Friday of the month between 19:00 and 21:00 in the Seminar Room, Imaging Department, Level 0, QEHB.
Telephone: 0121 459 7147
Headway
Acquired brain injury drop-in service. Call in on Wednesdays, 13:30 – 16:30, Outpatients Area 1, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.
Telephone: 0121 457 7541
Heart to Heart
The cardiac patient group meets in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital boardroom on the first and third Tuesday of every month.
Telephone: 0121 627 2000, extension 3977
Kidney Patients' Association
Runs local groups across the West Midlands.
Telephone: 01922 644 982
Email: flintnf@aol.com
Laryngectomy Support Group
Meets monthly at British Legion social club, Quarry Lane, Northfield. A patient-led group with organised speakers at each session.
Telephone: 0121 627 2360 / 0121 627 2248
Let's Face It
Support group for people with any form of facial disfigurement.
Telephone: 01843 833 724
MD Junction Lupus Support Group
A community of patients, family members and friends dedicated to dealing with lupus together.
Military patients
Military patients will be visited by a representative from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) who will attend to their administrative, welfare, pastoral and spiritual needs.
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society provides support and information for people with rheumatoid arthritis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and their families, friends and carers.
National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society
Unit B4 Westacott Business Centre
Westacott Way
Littlewick Green
Maidenhead
Berkshire
SL6 3RT
Telephone: 0845 458 3969
Helpline: 0800 298 7650 (UK only)
Email: enquiries@rheumatoid.org.uk
Pain Association of Scotland
The Pain Association recognises that it is not only pain sufferers who experience distress, but carers, relatives and friends may also need support.
Telephone: 0800 783 6059
Pain Concern
Pain Concern works to provide information and support for pain sufferers, and for those who care for them and about them.
Telephone: 01620 822572
Pain Relief Foundation
The Pain Relief Foundation is a UK charity which funds research into the causes and treatment of human chronic pain and is concerned with education of doctors and nurses in pain management.
Telephone: 0151 529 5820
QE Liver Transplant Support Group
The group meets at 19:30 on the third Monday of every month (except July and August) in the Seminar Room, QE Hospital.
Telephone: 0121 627 2089 / 01788 814906 (after 19:30)
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Support Group
Held first Tuesday of every month, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital.
Telephone: 0121 424 1433
The National Osteoporosis Society
The National Osteoporosis Society runs a local support group based in Birmingham.
Telephone: 0121 429 7366
Tracheotomy Support
New group for patients following tracheotomy. Telephone: 0121 627 2248
Vasculitis Support Group West Midlands (VSGWM)
Support group for sufferers of systemic vasculitis (e.g. Wegener's granulomatosis) as well as support for carers. The VSGWM circulates useful information and ideas, with friendly meetings held at least once a year.
Telephone: 0121 243 5621
West Midlands Lupus Group
A support group for people with systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus).
Telephone: 01902 498 236
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