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Category: Current Items

Patient gets a new kidney in time for the festive season after 30 years on dialysis

04/01/202204/01/2022

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…

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Current Items, Patients' Experiences

Vulnerable could be offered booster COVID-19 vaccines from September

30/06/202124/09/2021

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…

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Advice on COVID-19 vaccination for transplant recipients and patients waiting for a transplant

30/06/202103/08/2021

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…

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Covid19 – Call for Employer Support for immune suppressed staff

14/06/202114/06/2021

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…

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Current Items, Transplantation

NHS Digital Data Sharing

14/06/202130/06/2021

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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Featured Items

12/01/2023

PKD App

The Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Charity have just launched a brand new PKD App. Developed...
05/12/2022

Annual General Meeting, 27th November 2022

To see the recording of the AGM, which was held by video conference using Zoom,...
01/11/2022

Dealing with power and water supply problems on Home Dialysis

A number of patients have raised questions, below, about Home Dialysis, particularly APD (Automated Peritoneal...
29/09/2022

Information about NHS Prescriptions

If you are a renal patient, it is likely (for a variety of reasons) that...
10/08/2021

How we use donated funds

One of the most important responsibilities of the RFHKPA is to use donated funds wisely...
20/04/2021

Emergency Contacts

A list of Emergency Contacts for the Royal Free Trust.

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