Please join us at the May Meeting, by clicking the Zoom link below: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87038298083 The Meeting ID is: 870 3829 8083 Skin cancer risk for organ transplant patients explained. Our Guest Speaker is Alan Milligan, Clinical Specialist in the Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer department, Royal Free…
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RFHKPA Members’ Meeting, 4th April 2022
This Meeting was held by video conference, using Zoom, which allowed it to be recorded. The Meeting included a presentation by Lucy Willingale, Health Professional Lead for the Kidney Cancer UK charity. To see a video of the Meeting (on YouTube) please click the link…
Read ArticleOrgan Donation webinar for members of the Jain & Hindu communities
On Wednesday 16th March 2022 at 8.00 pm, there is a special Royal Free Organ Donation webinar for members of the Jain & Hindu communities. This will be a talk and panel discussion covering some of the barriers and myths surrounding organ donation. It is…
Read ArticleIt’s World Kidney Day on 10th March 2022
World Kidney Day is an annual campaign to help raise awareness of kidneys and show the suffering caused when they don’t work properly. It also aims to educate people on what kidneys do and how to improve your kidney health. The Kidney Charities Together Group…
Read ArticleAnnual General Meeting, 23rd January 2022
This year the AGM was held by video conference, using Zoom, which allowed it to be recorded.Included below are some extracts from the recording. Due to the vagaries of running Zoom meetings with multiple participants, in some places in these videos the picture disappears briefly,…
Read ArticlePatient gets a new kidney in time for the festive season after 30 years on dialysis
A patient who spent 30 years on dialysis says it was his wife, Marichel’s love which finally persuaded him to have a kidney transplant. Since the age of 19, Senthil Kumarathevan – who is now 49 – has undergone dialysis for four hours three times…
Read ArticleNKF Virtual Patient Event 2021
This year’s Annual Patient Event. held on the 9th October 2021 was entirely virtual using Zoom. This means you may follow the Event from the comfort of your own home. There were a range of speakers both from renal professionals and patient members. Thank you…
Read ArticleTransplant children’s choir sing out for more people to talk about organ donation
During Organ Donation Week (20th to 26th September 2021) the ‘Harmonies of Hope’ children’s choir called for children not to be ‘Invisible’, with a song which reveals the hidden impact for more than 7000 people, including 200 children, currently predicted to be in need of…
Read ArticleHome Haemo worked for me
By David Myers BEM (Life President. RFHKPA) I am a big supporter of home dialysis but in particular home haemodialysis. It made a big difference to the way in which I was able to conduct my life and carry on working. It’s now about 30…
Read ArticleRoyal Free Hospital organ donation patient and champion honoured by Queen
A kidney patient of nearly 30 years at the Royal Free Hospital has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the Queen’s 2021 Birthday Honours List for services to renal patients.David Myers spent eight years on dialysis before receiving his first kidney transplant at the…
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