The event held at Governors’ Hall, St Thomas’ Hospital highlighted the Charity’s achievements over the last 20 years and honoured instrumental figures in accomplishing important milestones, such as changes to food labelling and the establishment of many of the UK’s

The Prescription Charges Coalition has issued a statement in response to proposals from the Barker Commission which recommend some fundamental changes to prescription charges in order to raise a potential additional £1 billion revenue for the NHS. These include the

Today, 4th November 2014, we have launched an important new initiative for our schools. If successful, this campaign will ensure every state school, pre-school and nursery have a stock of Adrenaline Auto-Injectors and there are sufficient trained staff to operate

Overall the results were very positive and cross contamination appears to be well controlled by manufacturers. On the rare occasion cross contamination did occur the products were marked up with a precautionary label.  This supports our advice that allergic consumers

A moving short film detailing the story of a father who almost lost his son to anaphylaxis while on a family holiday has been produced and re-launched ahead of Father’s Day by the Anaphylaxis Campaign as the only UK wide

The Anaphylaxis Campaign, was awarded a GSK IMPACT Award at a ceremony on Thursday 15th May 2014. From over 400 charities nationwide who applied for GSK’s flagship UK community investment programme, the Anaphylaxis Campaign is one of only ten winners

May 2014 The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started a review of adrenaline auto-injectors, which are used as first-aid treatment of anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions) prior to calling for emergency medical  assistance. This review was requested by the UK medicines

Following some calls to our helpline on this topic we have prepared some tips to help you have a safe enjoyable meal. These tips are really important – takeaway food can pose a risk to people with severe allergies, particularly

Members of our helpline team attended an Adult Food Allergy Workshop organised by the FSA and sponsored by the BSACI on Monday 17th March 2014. The meeting drew together researchers, clinicians and other relevant parties working in the food allergy