Kidney Matters

Issue 12 of our Kidney Matters magazine is now out!

Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease. 

This issue includes a feature on sex and relationships, how your views helped shape covid-19 national policy, medical articles on anaemia and simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation, and a feature interview with a transplant recipient on some of the social stigmas often faced by people with chronic health conditions within the Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community. As well as this, we'll be looking back at two years of the Kidney Kitchen as we cook up a tasty tandoori with guest chef and RNG dietitian, Gabby Ramlan.

Finally, we pay tribute to Professor Donal O'Donoghue, our chair of Trustees and all the members of our kidney community who have sadly lost their lives to Covid-19.

We know that being a kidney patient can be tough at times and that accessing the right help at the right time isn’t always easy. We’ve spent a great deal of time over the past year talking to kidney patients on dialysis, asking them what we can do to address this. The response was overwhelmingly ‘improved communication’ on what is going on in the kidney world and what is available to them in terms of support and how to access it. 

Kidney Matters has been developed to tackle this as well as the many other issues kidney patients face in day-to-day life. Along with shared patient experiences, Kidney Matters provides on how to access emotional and practical support, financial assistance through our grant schemes, advice from leading kidney specialists and tips on how to keep as well as possible by eating a healthy diet whilst on dialysis.

How to get Kidney Matters

If you're on our database you should have received a copy. If you haven't received a copy please contact us and let us know you would like a copy and include your post address. 

You can download a digital version of our Kidney Matters magazine (PDF 3MB)

Or read the magazine online

Sign up for future copies

If you'd like to sign up to receive Kidney Matters either via post or email in the future please fill in the following sign-up form. Or you can call us on 01420 541424.

Previous Issues

Previous issues of our Kidney Matters Magazine

Summer 2019, Issue 6

You can download a digital version of our Kidney Matters magazine (PDF 3MB)

Or read the magazine online

Spring 2019, Issue 5

You can download a digital version of our Kidney Matters magazine (PDF 3MB)

Or read the magazine online

Winter 2019, Issue 4

You can download a digital version of our Kidney Matters magazine (PDF 3MB)

Or read the magazine online

Autumn 2018, Issue 3

You can download a digital version of Kidney Matters magazine (PDF 3MB)

Or read the magazine online

Summer 2018, Issue 2

You can download a digital version of Kidney Matters magazine (PDF 3MB)

Or read the magazine online

Spring 2018, Issue 1

You can download a digital version of Kidney Matters magazine.

Or read the magazine online.