The potential overlapping populations for treatment with belimumab and rituximab using current NHS England and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Guidelines in England and Wales

Affiliations

• ¹ The Kellgren Centre for Rheumatology, NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• ² Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology.
• ³ Division of Musculoskeletal & Dermatological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.
• ⁵ Department of Rheumatology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne.
• ⁶ Division of Rheumatology, University College London, Rayne Institute, London.
• ⁷ Rheumatology Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham.
• ⁸ Rheumatology Department, City Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham.
• ⁹ Louise Coote Lupus Unit, Guys Hospital, London.
• ¹⁰ Rheumatology Department-University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Old Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.
• ¹¹ Rheumatology Department, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham.
• ¹² Leeds Institute for Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds.
• ¹³ NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds.
• ¹⁴ Department of Rheumatology, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster.
• ¹⁵ Musculoskeletal Research Unit, NIHR Wellcome Trust Clinical Research facility, The University of Southampton.
• ¹⁶ University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Rheumatology, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn.
• ¹⁸ Rheumatology Department, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield.
• ¹⁹ Department of Rheumatology, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases and Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
• ²⁰ Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath.
• ²¹ Rheumatology Department, Hairmyres Hospital, Lanarkshire, UK.