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AAA provides information, advice and support to those made chronically ill through different forms of allergy and those who care for them, including where to find medical specialists and relevant aids.

Action for Sick Children is the longest serving UK healthcare charity for children, young people and their families. The charity was specially formed in 1961 to ensure that sick children and young people always receive the highest standard of care possible. We work with parents, healthcare professionals and government to improve services and attitudes to the way children and young people are treated in hospital and the community when they are unwell.

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.

Addaction is the UK's biggest drug and alcohol treatment charity.

ADDISS aims to provide support and promote knowledge, understanding and positive attitudes towards ADHD.

Adfam is the leading national organisation working with, and for, families affected by substance misuse.

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading care and research charity for people with dementia and those who care for them.
There are 700,000 people with dementia in the UK with numbers set to rise to one million by 2025.
Alzheimer's Society is a membership organisation, which works to improve the quality of life of people affected by dementia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Many of our 25,000 members have personal experience of dementia, as carers, health professionals or people with dementia themselves, and their experiences help to inform our work.

The Ambulance Service Association was set up in 1994 to represent NHS Ambulance Trusts and to aid them in providing the highest standards of clinical care. Today the ASA represents the NHS ambulance services across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The public ambulance services of Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar are also members of the ASA and whilst not part of the NHS, they operate to the same clinical and professional standards as NHS services.

AGREE is an international collaboration of researchers and policy makers who seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice guidelines by establishing a shared framework for their development, reporting and assessment.

NICE is represented by its clinical director, Professor Peter Littlejohns.

Promoting better understanding, diagnosis, treatment and quaity of life for all those affected by cardiac arrhythmias.

AIMS offers advice and information about parents' rights in maternity care (but not employment rights), the choices available, technological interventions, normal childbirth and complaints procedures. AIMS produces a series of information leaflets and a quarterly Journal which contains information about obstetric and midwifery practices, research and accounts of individual experiences.

The Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO) was founded in 1967 and is the UK's foremost organisation dedicated to the understanding and treatment of obesity.

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is the trade association for about a hundred companies in the UK producing prescription medicines.

Its member companies research, develop, manufacture and supply more than 90 per cent of the medicines prescribed through the National Health Service (NHS).

To be recognised as the primary point of reference for information, guidance and support for children and young people with CFS/ME and their families.
To be recognised as the authoritative voice in policy development and delivery of appropriate and effective services for children and young people with ME/CFS;
To improve the quality of life of children and young people with ME/CFS.

To provide up to date information, guidance and support for all professionals working with children and young people with CFS/ME

Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authorities is one of 28 Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) set up in 2001 to develop strategies for the NHS, and to make sure their local NHS organisations are performing well.

Avon , Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority is responsible for:-

• Developing plans for improving health services in the local area
• Making sure local health services are of a high quality and are performing well
• Increasing the capacity of local health services – so they can provide more services
• Making sure national priorities – for example, programmes for improving cancer services – are integrated into local health services plan.

The SHA manages the NHS locally and is a key link between the Department of Health and the NHS.