About Our Events
Patient Meeting Events
MDS UK offers two types of patient meeting events:
- National Patient and Family Forum Events
- Local Patient and Family Groups
National Patient and Family Forum Events
Our patient and family forum events are open to all MDS patients and their guests and are free of charge.
It is a whole day event - starting about 10am - finishing around 4pm.
Patients and their families have the opportunity to participate in informal discussions regarding their quality-of-life issues living with MDS.
New therapies and patient treatment options are discussed, presented by our guest speakers – MDS specialist physicians and nurses.
Attendees are also given the opportunity to participate in a question and answer segment with the guest speakers.
We actively encourage all patients and family members to attend these information and support events.
MDS UK local groups
We started assisting the creation of informal local and regional groups – to enable patients to meet face to face more regularly and offer each other support.
Typically - these informal local meetings last 2-3 hours - either as a coffee morning - or in the late afternoon - depending on patient preference.
We actively encourage patients and families to help run these groups - as MDS UK does not have enough staff to be present at all these meetings.
Much assistance and support is provided though!
The groups do not replace the advice and assistance we give from our London office – nor the National Forum event days we organise every year.
Detailed list and contacts of local groups can be found on our page: Local UK Groups
Please ask to start your own informal group
And of course - do check our Events page on our calendar page, for exact dates of any group meetings, anywhere in the UK.
