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.
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Covid-19 vaccination for adult patients with kidney disease
Kidney Care UK is campaigning for patients who have in-centre haemodialysis to be moved up from priority group four to priority group one for COVID-19 vaccination
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
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.
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
(BLOG) Why I no longer dread eating meals with people
Jess Harris has over 15 years’ experience living with a restricted diet, and knows just how important it is to understand the impact food can have when you are unwell.