Local Assembly Member Paul Davies is supporting a campaign to establish a tertiary multidisciplinary paediatric rheumatology service to be established in South Wales. Mr Davies recently attended a networking event of rheumatology and arthritis charities, where he met with local resident Darren Dworakowski and his daughter Aimee, who lives with childhood arthritis.

Mr Davies said, “I’m proud to support the Too Young for Arthritis campaign and call for a specialist paediatric rheumatology centre or full dedicated multidisciplinary paediatric rheumatology services to be established in Wales. It’s very disappointing that Wales is the only home nation without such a centre and therefore children like Aimee do not have access to services closer to home. It’s crucial that the Welsh Government take on-board the views of those families living with childhood arthritis and work to establish a centre in Wales, so that children in Wales are not disadvantaged compared to their neighbours in England and Scotland.”