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    Advice Line Unavailable
    Posted: January 4, 2022

    Hello all,

    Unfortunately our advice line number is experiencing a fault. It is not yet fixed, but in the meantime, if you dial the advice line and hear the apparent 'engaged' tone, ring off and immediately redial and it should connect. If you cannot get through, in the short term we suggest you e-mail us on adviceline@ouchuk.org and tell us how we can help. If you don’t have e-mail, maybe a family member or friend who does could help. The fault has been reported and we’ll let you know as soon as the fault has been fixed!

    Mike Pollock Award
    Posted: December 7, 2021

    Last year, the Board of Trustees chose Corin Ridout to receive this award. Corin regularly raised awareness and funds on behalf of his brother Glen, a cluster headache sufferer. Sadly, Glen passed away not long before Corin's virtual London Marathon but he was determined to carry on in Glen's memory. We felt that this was a wonderful example of going the extra mile that we've always associated with the Mike Pollock award and that he was a very deserving recipient.

    The award was created in honour of our late, much missed chairman, Mike, who helped so very many cluster headache sufferers. It is meant to go to a CH hero in the UK - someone who has shown outstanding and compassionate support to cluster headache sufferers.

    The...

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    Join our Virtual Conference
    Posted: November 12, 2021

    We're delighted to announce the 2021 OUCH (UK) Virtual Conference. It will take place on Zoom on Sunday 5th December 2021, 12pm - 4.30pm.

    This is a free event for members with a £5 fee for non-members.

    Find out more and book your place now!

     

    Read the Autumn 2021 edition of CHit CHat
    Posted: November 3, 2021

    The latest edition of our magazine CHit CHat has been published! Click the buttons below for the current and back issues.

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    Warwick Study of Mental Defeat in Chronic Pain (WITHIN Project) PHASE 2
    Posted: November 1, 2021

    As part of this ongoing study, the next phase (our lab-based study) has now opened for recruitment.  We are currently looking for volunteers  (UK-only) aged 18-65  with chronic pain  conditions who would be willing to travel to the University of Warwick Campus (based in Coventry) to take part.

    This lab-based study aims to understand the roles that mental defeat and mental victory have in underpinning different experiences of chronic pain.  If you agree to take part, you will be invited to attend a test session with one of the researchers at the University of Warwick Sleep and Pain Laboratory located at the main Central Campus (Coventry). 

    The test session typically takes no longer than 2.5 hours. As a thank you for your...

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    New! Create your own Fundraising Page on our Website
    Posted: October 22, 2021

    We are pleased to announce that fundraisers can now create their own fundraising page and collect sponorship donations on our website. With Virgin Money Giving closing down at the end of November 2021 we needed a way to faciliate our wonderful supporters in their fundraising events. Head over to our new section to learn more and set up your own page!

    Free Online Event - Cumbria Headache Forum
    Posted: September 2, 2021

    Cumbria Headache Forum - Cluster Headache - 7th October

    We would like to invite patients as well as medical professionals to join us for the next Headache Forum which is dedicated to management of cluster headache. It will provide insight into pathophysiology of the condition, pharmacological management and neuromodulation.

    Programme:

    • 1:30pm Warm welcome (Chair) - Dr Jitka Vanderpol
    • 1:35pm Cluster Headache - Dr Manjit Matharu
    • 2.15pm Cluster Headache Management in Community Headache Clinic - Siobhan Jones
    • 2.45pm Injectable Treatments...
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    Shaping Future Support: The Health and Disability Green Paper

    Posted: August 19, 2021

    You may like to contribute to this recent Department of Work and Pensions green paper consultation and survey. It "aims to explore how the benefits system can better meet the needs of disabled people and people with health conditions now and in the future... [and] is an important step towards making changes that will improve our services, increase opportunities for employment and help more people to live independently. Our approach must be informed by different views and opinions, particularly those of disabled people and people with health conditions."

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    New! Donate by Text
    Posted: August 18, 2021

    We now offer another super easy way to donate to OUCH (UK) with our latest text giving service*.  Here's how to do it:

    To donate £1, text OUCH to 70201
    To donate £3, text OUCH to 70331
    To donate £5, text OUCH to 70970
    To donate £10, text OUCH to 70191

    * Fundraising, payments and donations will be processed and administered by the National Funding Scheme, operating as DONATE, a charity registered in England and Wales (1149800) and Scotland (SC045106). In addition to any text donation, you will incur your standard network message charge (based on your...

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    Play our lottery for a chance to win up to £25,000!
    Posted: May 21, 2021

    Here's a new way to support your charity - we've joined a lottery!

    • Tickets only cost £1 per week
    • 50% of all tickets sold from our page go to us
    • Support us and you could win prizes of up to £25,000!

    Buy tickets through the OUCH (UK) page to help our cause.

    Play for a chance to win cash prizes and OUCH (UK) receives 50% of every ticket sold from our page!

    Being part of One Lottery means that with your support we can generate regular sustainable funding. Buying a ticket through One Lottery is one way you can help us to continue to grow and provide our services. So whether you...

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    Join our Zoom call with CH experts inc Prof. Goadsby
    Posted: March 9, 2021

    Update 22/03/21:  A video recording of this event is now available on the OUCH (UK) YouTube channel 

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    Members are invited to join an OUCH (UK) Question & Answer session with CH experts:

    • Prof Peter Goadsby
    • Dr Nicholas Silver
    • Dr Fayyez Ahmed
    • Dr Diane Wei

    This will take place on Cluster Headache Awareness Day, Sunday, 21st March, 2021.

    This is a free zoom event where members can put their questions to the CH specialists live.  Please register...

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    Professor Goadsby wins prestigious award
    Posted: March 5, 2021

    OUCH (UK) is very pleased and proud to announce that their chairman and patron, Professor Peter  Goadsby, is one of four eminent neuroscience researchers who have jointly been awarded the prestigious Lundbeck Foundation annual Brain Prize for their work in the field of neuroscience, with particular regard to the mechanism of migraine, which has led to the development of innovative new treatment for this disabling condition.  The Professor's co-recipients are Professor Dr Lars Edvinson, Professor Michael Moskowitz, and Professor Jes Olesen.

    Professor Goadsby is a world authority on the even rarer condition cluster headache and his commitment to reducing the pain of all those who suffer a severe headache condition is a lifelong...

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