British Thyroid Foundation
| Abbreviation | BTF |
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| Formation | 1991 |
| Legal status | Charity |
| Purpose | Thyroid medicine in the UK |
| Headquarters | 3 Devonshire Place, Harrogate, HG1 4AA |
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Region served
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UK |
| Affiliations | British Thyroid Association |
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Staff
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4 |
| Website | BTF |
The British Thyroid Foundation (BTF) is a UK-based, patient-led, registered charity dedicated to supporting people with thyroid disorders and helping their families and people around them to understand the condition.
The Foundation is recognised by both patients and the medical profession.
Since setting up in 1991, BTF has worked with thyroid specialists from the British Thyroid Association (BTA), to ensure patients get up-to-date, medically evidenced based and reliable information. The BTA is a non-profit making learned society of professional clinical specialist doctors and scientists who look after patients with thyroid disorders and who carry out research into the thyroid.
Janis Hickey, director, founded British Thyroid Foundation in 1991 after being diagnosed with Graves’ disease and thyroid eye disease. She realized there was a need for support for those with thyroid disease as did the late Sir Richard Bayliss KCVO who was involved with the British Thyroid Association (at the time known as The Thyroid Club), and who encouraged the establishment of the BTF.
British Thyroid Foundation was administered out of Mrs. Hickey’s home until 2001 when BTF moved into their current location in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK. Currently, BTF employs four part-time employees and is aided by many volunteers all over the UK.
Past and present patrons include Claire Rayner, Maria Aitken, Clare Balding, Jenny Pitman, Melissa Porter, Gay Search, and Dr. W Michael G Tunbridge.
British Thyroid Foundation supports local support groups and provides telephone support through volunteers. BTF fields telephone and email questions usually by providing information that is medically evidenced based. BTF News is the quarterly newsletter featuring articles about thyroid research and treatment, local group activities, and BTF national level news.
British Thyroid Foundation is represented at various medical conferences such as the British Endocrine Society and the Royal College of General Practitioners.
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