Welcome to our first newsletter of 2022 which looks back on 2021 and details some of our plans for 2022. With Covid-19 still impacting the world, we continue to urge governments and health systems to recognise the vulnerability of pulmonary fibrosis patients, to call for global vaccine equality and to alleviate the isolation of PF and transplant patients by providing new antibody treatments. I hope you all enjoy this newsletter and will attend our upcoming 2nd series of webinars. Also, whether you are a patient, carer, or healthcare professional please save the date for the 2nd European Pulmonary Fibrosis Patient Summit, which will take place virtually on the 3rd to 5th of November 2022. Our federation is dedicated to serving the patient community of the whole of Europe. The devastating events in Ukraine have obviously not only affected its pulmonary fibrosis patients, and its dedicated respiratory healthcare professionals but the entire population of the country. This conflict is and will impact life in and the economies of all of Europe. A Europe where health care systems already struggle to cope with the many rare, uncommon, and complex chronic illnesses as well as the everyday health issues of their populations. Therefore, we look to the return of peace and doing what we can to serve all our patient communities. Steve Jones |