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Aims and Objectives

1. Aims

  1. To advance the understanding and management of patient symptoms arising from food allergy and intolerance and all diseases associated therewith.
  2. To position the subject within the centre of medical practice and understanding.
  3. To demonstrate, using trial GP Practices, the advantages of screening and recording factors related to food allergy and intolerance using suitable qualified practice nurses. To test the proposition that food allergy and intolerance is frequently not diagnosed or is misdiagnosed as another ailment. Any conclusion should then be argued from the specific to the general, thereby demonstrating the potential to save huge amounts of money and GP's time and lead to more accurate diagnosis and effective treatment in the general population.
  4. To research and demonstrate environmental and nutritional factors on health.
  5. To calculate and demonstrate, using cost benefit analysis, the potential savings to the National Health Service.
  6. To consolidate the research work that has been undertaken initially by the Centre for Allergy Research and Environmental Health at UCL, and subsequently taken on by the Department of Allergy and Environmental Health within the School of Health and Life Sciences at King's College London, where, initially, special emphasis is being given to the gut and micro flora therein.
  7. To disseminate information based on scientific evidence by all possible means.
  8. To encourage clinical trials and further science based research into allergy and food intolerance.
  9. To involve Government in the issues that become evident.
  10. To encourage self help in the general public.
  11. To form a 'Medical and Advisory Panel' of eminent and distinguished people in the field to review the results of commissioned research and advise on the validity of future research projects.

2. Objects as set out in the Declaration of Trust dated 25th February 2002.

The trustees shall hold the trust fund and its income upon trust to apply them for the relief of sickness and the advancement of public education in particular by:-

  1. General medical research and education and the dissemination of medical information with particular reference to allergy including food allergy and intolerance and all symptoms or diseases associated thereto.
  2. Research and education together with the dissemination of information relating to the effect of the environment on human health.
  3. The promotion of the objectives set out above and the encouragement of research by others.