The Complete RA Library Bundle: All Five Guides + Audio Companion

Includes all five guides in the series (worth £79.95) plus the audio companion — yours for £44.99. You save £34.96 (44%).
📕 Is It Rheumatoid Arthritis? · The Complete Patient Guide to RA · The RA Fatigue & Flare Guide · RA and Your Career · RA and the People You Love · 🎧 Audio companion (MP3)

The Complete RA Library — Five Essential Guides, Plus Audio

Everything the RA Patient Education Series has to offer, in one bundle — saving over 44% versus buying the guides separately. Together they cover every stage and every challenge: from unexplained joint symptoms before diagnosis, through understanding the condition and its treatments, to the symptom nobody can see, to protecting a career, to the people around you.

✅ All five guides written to current UK guidance, September 2026. Built on NICE guideline NG100 and its technology appraisals, NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries, NHS medicines information, the BNF, the MHRA Drug Safety Update on JAK inhibitors, GOV.UK Access to Work, Versus Arthritis and NRAS.

🎧 New: The Audio Companion — Included Free

The Twelve-Week Window: Why Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Treated as Urgent

A conversational audio overview, included as an MP3 with this bundle at no extra cost. It works as a way into the material before you read a page, and as something to have on while your hands are having a difficult morning.

The episode is built around a detail most people are never told: NICE guideline NG100 asks clinicians to start disease-modifying treatment ideally within three months of persistent symptoms beginning, because inflammation left running can erode cartilage and bone in a way that does not reverse. That twelve-week window shapes the entire referral system, and almost nobody outside rheumatology knows it exists.

Across the episode, the discussion covers:

• Why timing matters so much — the clinical reasoning behind treating suspected inflammatory arthritis as time-critical rather than something to watch and wait on
• Telling the two kinds of joint pain apart — mechanical pain that worsens with use, versus inflammatory pain that is worst after rest, with prolonged morning stiffness
• When a GP should refer urgently — the specific NG100 thresholds, and why guidance does not ask anyone to wait for an abnormal blood test first
• What the tests actually measure — CRP, ESR, rheumatoid factor and anti-CCP, what a first rheumatology appointment involves, and how symptom logs and dated photographs change the conversation
• The waiting period — the emotionally difficult stretch before there are answers, which almost no patient material addresses
• Treat-to-target — the modern strategy aimed at remission, conventional disease-modifying drugs such as methotrexate, and short-term steroid bridging
• Broader management — Cochrane evidence on dynamic exercise programmes, managing debilitating fatigue, and the risk assessment behind advanced treatments including JAK inhibitors

What You Get

🔍 Guide 1: Is It Rheumatoid Arthritis? (21 pages) — £14.99

For anyone with unexplained joint pain, stiffness or swelling — before a diagnosis. The inflammatory versus mechanical pattern, the NG100 referral thresholds in full, eight conditions that look similar, what every blood test actually measures, seronegative RA explained, GP and rheumatology appointment scripts, and a printable symptom log.

📘 Guide 2: The Complete Patient Guide to Rheumatoid Arthritis (32 pages) — £14.99

The flagship guide. Treat-to-target and the DAS28 broken down, all four conventional DMARDs compared, a full section on methotrexate including the safety points that matter most, steroids, biologics and JAK inhibitors with the MHRA advice explained, blood monitoring, infection and vaccination, physiotherapy and OT, diet, comorbidities, surgery, pregnancy and flares.

🔋 Guide 3: The RA Fatigue & Flare Guide (20 pages) — £16.99

The symptom that never shows up on a test result. Why RA fatigue is not ordinary tiredness, the seven contributors and which are treatable, energy recording and pacing, sleep and movement, early warning signs, what NICE recommends during a flare, and five printable worksheets including two flare plans.

💼 Guide 4: RA and Your Career (20 pages) — £17.99

UK employment rights in plain terms. The Equality Act 2010, why fluctuating conditions and treated conditions both still count, eight categories of reasonable adjustment with specific examples, Access to Work and the boundary that trips people up, occupational health, disclosure and recruitment, sick pay and phased returns, and the tribunal time limits that catch people out.

❤️ Guide 5: RA and the People You Love (20 pages) — £14.99

The part that never makes it into a clinic letter. Twelve word-for-word scripts covering explaining an invisible condition, partners and the redistribution of household life, intimacy, three age-specific scripts for children from 3 to 17, friendships and the cancellation spiral, asking for help, and looking after the people doing the supporting.

🎧 Plus: The Audio Companion (MP3) — included free

The Twelve-Week Window, described above. Yours to keep, and to listen to anywhere.

Bundle Pricing

You save £34.96 — that's 44% off, and the audio comes with it.

Format & Delivery

• Format: Five PDF files, A4 — 113 pages of specialist content — plus one MP3 audio file
• Instant download — every file delivered immediately on purchase
• Listen anywhere — standard MP3, plays on any phone, computer, car stereo or smart speaker, with no app or subscription needed
• Printable tools throughout — symptom logs, appointment preparation sheets, energy records, flare plans, blood monitoring records, household reviews and return-to-work plans
• Shared glossary — twenty-four rheumatology terms in plain English, in every guide
• Every source named — NICE, NHS, BNF, MHRA, GOV.UK, Versus Arthritis and NRAS, all free to check
• Last reviewed: September 2026

All guides and audio content are for educational purposes only and do not constitute medical, legal or therapeutic advice. No treatment outcome is promised or implied. Anyone with questions about their own health should speak to their GP or rheumatology team.