About this site

This website was developed by a group of organisations in the UK who are involved in the care of people with MS, led by the Department of Health Medicines Partnership programme. They also had help from a number of patients with MS who have had to make this decision for themselves.

From 1st April 2006, the site is being managed and updated by an Editorial Board chaired by Professor Alan Thompson of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.

The organisations represented on the original steering group were:

• Medicines Partnership
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• The MS Trust
• The MS Society
• The Institute of Neurology
• The Association of British Neurologists
• The UK MS Nurses Association
• Keele University (Department of Medicines Management)

With grateful thanks to patients who participated from:

• York Hospitals NHS Trust
• Royal Preston Hospital
• Queen's University Hospital, Belfast
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London

 

• Technical production by Motivation Multimedia
• Web site by Debeech
• Audio by Motivation Sound
• Video by EFS Television
• Streaming by Forbidden Technologies
• Images courtesy of Getty Images UK
  except images on: Using Site, Contents, Side Effects and Injection pages by Debeech; FAQ (consultant) and Development pages by Ian Whitbread courtesy of MSIF ; Treatment Range page by Brand X Pictures and skin reaction photo courtesy of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
  

The website was funded by the Department of Health.

The first edition of this website was published in September 2004