About MS

Working with the MS Society

The MS Therapy Centres share common goals with all other organisations working for the benefit of people with MS. The MS Society is the only other national body apart from MSNTC that provides immediate direct support to people living with the condition. MSNTC has worked to develop closer links with the MS Society at a national level, leaving individual MS Therapy Centres free to build and strengthen relationships with branches of the MS Society in their local area.

In 2007, the MSNTC and the MS Society issued a Statement of Intent, extracts of which are shown here.

"MS National Therapy Centres and the MS Society share a common goal - that of enabling people affected by MS to gain access to the services and the support they need to help improve their quality of life.

The mutual strength of both organisations is their membership base and direct involvement in all aspects of their work by people affected by MS. Many people are members of the MS Society and of their local MS Therapy Centre.

The trustees and officers of both organisations warmly welcome this initiative and will now be examining how closer working relationships can be established to benefit everyone affected by MS."

Closer working relationships

Since the above Statement of Intent was issued there has been real progress in establishing such working relationships across the country. People who share the common aim of helping people with MS are coming together to focus on their areas of agreement rather than on issues where they disagree.

Examples of such cooperation include joint use of MSNTC facilities, development of improved services for people with MS using identified best practice and the promotion of information services (where possible in concert with the MS Trust).

You can find out more about this from the Centres' individual websites.

The goal is to establish closer working relationships between the two national organisations for the benefit of everyone affected by MS.