Kidney patients are being unfairly impacted by the cost of living crisis. Whether that’s struggling with the cost to fill up your car to get to/from dialysis or appointments, or increased bills for those on home dialysis, there are far too many people in our…
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Kirit Modi, NKF Honorary President has received an MBE
Kirit Modi, Honorary President for the National Kidney Federation (NKF) and the National Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Transplant Alliance (NBTA) has been recognised by the Queen for his work RFHKPA Life President, David Myers said “I’m absolutely thrilled to learn that Kirit has…
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 ArticleRonapreve: ‘Most vulnerable’ to get new Covid drug
The UK’s “most vulnerable” hospital patients, who are unable to build up an antibody response to Covid, are to be offered a new drug, Ronapreve. It will be offered to those over-50 without the necessary antibodies, and those aged 12-49 who are immuno-compromised – for…
Read ArticleVitamin D deficiency associated with a higher risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation
A new study published in the journal Endocrine in January 2021 shows thatlow levels of vitamin D are associated with a higher risk of COVID19hospitalisation. If this is confirmed, vitamin D supplementation may be an inexpensive andrapid method to ensure better outcomes in such patients.…
Read ArticleDo you agree with Organ Donation?
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Read ArticleVulnerable could be offered booster COVID-19 vaccines from September
Following interim advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), millions of those most vulnerable to COVID-19 may be offered a booster vaccination from September to ensure the protection they have from first and second doses is maintained ahead of the winter and…
Read ArticleAdvice on COVID-19 vaccination for transplant recipients and patients waiting for a transplant
Recipients of solid organ and islet transplants and patients listed for a transplant were not included in vaccination trials in the UK. As a result, there has been uncertainty about the level of protection from vaccination in these groups as compared to healthy volunteers and…
Read ArticleCovid19 – Call for Employer Support for immune suppressed staff
The vaccine rollout has been a great success, but there is growing evidence that current vaccines give much less protection to people who have a weakened immune response due to a specific health condition or because they receive certain treatments. Kidney Care UK are part…
Read ArticleNHS Digital Data Sharing
You may have seen, over the last few weeks, discussion in the news about the NHS plans to share people’s health records with commercial third parties. There had been a deadline of 23rd June 2021 for people to opt-out of this, if they wished (with…
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