The work of the Anaphylaxis Campaign
The Anaphylaxis Campaign provides tailored services for individual and clinical professional members and also has a corporate membership programme.
Key Activities of the Anaphylaxis Campaign include:
- Providing a Helpline and information services – providing advice by telephone, e-mail, factsheets,video film and online channels
- Raising awareness and providing support through a programme of Workshops for parents of allergic children as well as for young people aged 11-18. Running local Support Group meetings and regional medical meetings
- Food safety developments – working with caterers, manufacturers and retailers to raise awareness and protect people from harmful allergens.
- Education – in addition to work with individuals, the Campaign works to educate schools, nurseries, colleges, universities and youth groups in allergy management. Following the success of our AllergyWise training for School Nurses we have developed an online training programme for families, individuals and carers and for healthcare professionals and will soon launch AllergyWise for GP’s and Practice Nurses.
- Campaigning – to improve allergy services within the NHS.
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The Anaphylaxis Campaign has been certified as a producer of reliable health and social care information by The Information Standard.
To gain the certification, the Anaphylaxis Campaign has had to demonstrate that the systems and methods we use to produce our materials are robust and result in material that is accurate, accessible, impartial, balanced, based on evidence and well-written. We have been successfully audited for our first year’s Info Standard work
So far five of our factsheets can carry the Information Standard mark – these are the ‘Peanut Allergy and Treenut Allergy’ , ‘Anaphylaxis in the early years setting’ , Anaphylaxis the Facts, Cow's milk allergy and Lupin. All our factsheets will go through the certification process over the next two and a half years.
The Information Standard is a certification scheme for health and social care information. It has been established by the Department of Health to help patients and the public make informed choices about their lifestyle, their condition and their options for treatment and care.
About 50,000 organisations produce health and social care information for the public in England and some people can feel overwhelmed by the volume of material and be unsure what to trust. The Information Standard has been introduced to fulfil the need for a “quality filter” to help people decide which information is trustworthy. It provides a recognised “quality mark” which indicates that an organisation is a reliable source of health and social care information.
