updated Tue. March 19, 2024
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Yorkshire Post
February 26, 2016
For this, the country remains in the debt of groups like the Hull-based National Gulf Veterans and Families Association whose tireless work has contributed so much to this important issue and helped ensure that service personnel, and their relatives, receive sufficient support coming to terms with theÃâà...
Comet 24
April 23, 2015
Despite the debilitating condition, Mark opened a stall in Stevenage Indoor Market in aid of the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association in 2009. He has since had to close the stall and has criticised Stevenage Borough Council for its lack of support. The war pensioner said: “The council demandedÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
August 6, 2014
For Maria Rusling, general manager of the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association, the delays raised painful memories of her time with former husband Shaun Rusling - an ex-paratrooper who won the right in 2002 to have Gulf War Syndrome considered a disease. She said: "The biggest problemÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
August 6, 2014
For Maria Rusling, general manager of the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association, the delays raised painful memories of her time with former husband Shaun Rusling - an ex-paratrooper who won the right in 2002 to have Gulf War Syndrome considered a disease. She said: "The biggest problemÃâà...
Edinburgh Evening News
May 14, 2012
After leaving the armed forces, Mr Sutherland moved into IT and in 1997 took a job with an international firm, but his health continued to falter until in 2001 he was diagnosed with depression. “I contacted the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association and they said it sounded like Gulf War Syndrome,”Ãâà...
Bury Free Press
March 13, 2012
Ian Sydall, spokesman for the national Gulf Veterans and Families Association, said: “This is a situation we have come across many times before. “It is what everyone in a similar position wants –recognition of their symptoms. “The problem that we have is that the war pensions scheme is quite restrictive.
BBC News
January 15, 2011
"The MoD is afraid of being accountable," says Shaun Rusling from the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association. "If they admitted there was such a thing as Gulf War Syndrome they could be open to compensation claims for medical negligence. "I would like the present government to apologise toÃâà...
Independent
April 11, 2010
Those left ill from the 1990-1991 conflict must seek compensation for each individual symptom because the Ministry of Defence refuses to recognise "Gulf War Syndrome" as a medical condition, according to the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association (NGVFA). Many give up after repeatedlyÃâà...
BBC News
November 2, 2005
"It is the definitive case on Gulf War Syndrome to date. Daniel stuck to his guns and has been vindicated, and this is going to have massive implications for hundreds of Gulf War veterans, who clearly suffer from Gulf War Syndrome." The National Gulf Veterans and Families Association said that of the 7,500Ãâà...
BBC News
November 18, 2004
An independent inquiry has concluded thousands of UK Gulf War veterans were made ill by their service. The inquiry said there probably were a number of causes - but said it was fair to describe the illnesses collectively as Gulf War syndrome. It called on the MoD to establish a special fund to makeÃâà...
BBC News
November 5, 2004
Shaun Rusling, vice chairman of the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association, said: "I agree with the findings, it is what we expected. "It is absolutely ridiculous for the MoD to deny Gulf war syndrome does not exist. UK troops were exposed to sarin and this, along with the multiple vaccinations troopsÃâà...
