Migraine Awareness Week 2024: Ask your MP to support better migraine care

Migraine hurts in many ways. From physical pain to the emotional pain that often comes with living with the condition, and the pain of encountering the misconceptions across society about migraine.

This is why for Migraine Awareness Week 2024 (Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th September), The Migraine Trust want to raise awareness of what it means to live with migraine in the UK. We’ll be releasing our new research on the impact of migraine on mental health and talking about how migraine impacts every area of life.

One of the ways you can help us change perceptions of migraine is by writing to your MP.

The UK has a new Parliament, and more than half of the MPs in this Parliament weren't in the last one, so this may be the first time they will be hearing from constituents about migraine. One in seven people in the UK experience migraine – around 10 million, or roughly 10,000 people per UK parliamentary constituency. And as MPs, they can:

• Raise migraine care in Parliament and help put it on the Government’s agenda
• Put pressure on local NHS bodies about their plans for patients with migraine
• Highlight what the Government and employers should be doing to enable people with migraine to get the reasonable accommodations they need to work

This is a chance for people who understand the impact of migraine to speak out and highlight to politicians how migraine affects people who live with it, and ask them to support Migraine Awareness Week as a first step.

Put in your postcode to find your MP and write to them about making migraine matter. We have a template letter ready for you to send, but if you would be comfortable doing so, you can insert some information about your migraine experience, such as challenges securing treatment or support in work/education, or alternatively the experiences of people you know who are impacted by it.