Leading health organisations issue Brexit no-deal warning
The Royal College of Physicians has sent an open letter to Prime Minister, Boris Johnson - signed by 16 other leading health organisations including Kidney Care UK
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We can work it out
With the news that music legend Stevie Wonder will have a kidney transplant emerging this week, Kidney Care UK Policy Director, Fiona Loud talks about the importance of living donors.
New express freight service contract for medicines and medical supplies
The government has announced details of a new freight express service for transporting urgent medicines, medical products, blood and transplant tissues as part of its Brexit preparations
App offers hope in fight against acute kidney injury (AKI)
Detection of one of the biggest killers in the NHS has been cut from hours to minutes at the Royal Free Hospital in London thanks to the introduction of a new mobile app.
Annual Organ Donation and Transplantation Activity Report published
The report shows the number of people who donated organs after they died reached a record high but the overall number of transplants has fallen.
2019 British Transplant Games
This years Games is taking place in Newport between the 25 and 28 July
2019 Research Grants programme now open
The Kidney Patient Research Partnership is open until 20 September 2019
Kidney Care UK raises awareness with local school visit
Kidney Care UK Head of Fundraising, Rob Hope, visited Alton Infant School in Hampshire to help raise awareness about kidney disease
Has welfare become unfair?
A new report by the Disability Benefits Consortium (DBC), has been published examining the impact of welfare reform, ‘‘Has welfare become unfair – the impact of changes on disabled people”
Kidney charities join forces with DPC to increase renal knowledge
The Kidney Charities Together (KCT) group has joined forces with the Diabetes Professional Care 2019 conference to put together a practical new DPC Kidney Clinic
The 2019 Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREM) survey is now open
Take the survey now - this is your chance to help us improve care and services for kidney patients