Here are some useful tips for managing financial pressures around the festive session from Nicky, the Trust’s Welfare Officer. They include information about the changes in benefit payment dates, applying for financial help from your energy supplier, seasonal information that may help you to plan your budget, and how the Trust can help through financial grants and our Helpline.
This week is World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness week; it’s an opportunity to highlight research we’re funding to understand and treat CF lung infections. Some lung infections are becoming increasingly resistant to antimicrobial treatments such as antibiotics. This means that the treatments may be less effective. Today, we’re highlighting some recent research results from researchers at the CF Innovation Hub on lung health at the University of Cambridge.
This week is World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week; it’s an opportunity to tell you about exciting research to develop better ways to treat CF lung infections. Here, we report on Sarah’s visit to the labs of Trust-funded researcher Professor Jo Fothergill.
We spoke to dancer and choreographer Jack, who performed on America and Britain’s Got Talent, who has now turned his attention to ‘Just Believe’, a company that raises awareness of CF through dance. Jack speaks about his diagnosis, how he became a dancer and his performance, raising awareness of CF.
Today, our Chief Executive reflects on the past week of cystic fibrosis news: from NICE’s draft recommendations on modulator therapies Orkambi, Symkevi and Kaftrio, to yesterday’s announcement that children aged 2–5 years old have been approved to use Kaftrio.
