UK National Kidney Federation

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NKF KEY PAGES

• Medical Information — all the detailed facts you need to know about Kidney Disease
• Flu — Seasonal and Swine
• Read Kidney Life online
• Link to Organ Donation TaskForce report published 16 January 2008
• Help raise money for the NKF via the Charity Challenge website
• Renal National Service Framework information page
• Nocturnal Dialysis at Home — Marion Higgins – NEW
• Link to Renal Radio
• Link to NHS Choices Home Haemodialysis video
• View the NKF Film

• Know your Numbers - DIALYSIS (Blood results, Blood Pressure, Dialysis Adequacy...)
• Know your Numbers - TRANSPLANT (Blood results, Blood Pressure...)
• Switching Medicines — the dangers
• Link to Renal Tsar’s Warning on Ciclosporin – NEW

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RECENT ADDITIONS

• Why Home Dialysis? (added 11 March 2010)
• Children’s leafet — Warts and Kidney Disease (added 11 March 2010)
• Children’s leafet — Posterior Urethral Valves (added 10 March 2010)
• Transplantation Cost Effectiveness (added 10 March 2010)
• Nocturnal Dialysis at Home — Marion Higgins (added 5 March 2010)
• Submission from NKF to Miroslav Mikolasik, Anna Rouillard et al. on Proposed European Organ Donation Directive (added 3 March 2010)
• Kidney Alliance position statement — Living organ donors (PDF, 154 kB - added 23 February 2010)
• Astellas’ warning on Advagraf, Prograf and Modigraf (PDF, 1.6MB - added 23 February 2010)
• European threat to Living Donation in the UK (added 22 February 2010)
• Secretary of State’s commitment to home dialysis (added 19 February 2010)
• Home Dialysis — What Options are Offered Survey (added 3 February 2010)
• 2010 GENERAL ELECTION — Parliamentary Candidates Survey — Your help needed (added 2 February 2010)
• Items for Sale (added 26 January 2010)
• Listen again to the 2009 conference speeches (added 24 December 2009)
• Kidney Life Winter 2009 (PDF, 3MB added 22 December 2009)
• Wales to Seek presumed Consent Powers (added 21 December 2009)
• The Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries paper: Generic Medicines (PDF, 18 kB added 16 December 2009)
• Automatic Generic Substitution — Clinical implications for patients (PDF, 339 kB added 16 December 2009)
• Dispensing Doctors Association Online article: Generic Substitution (added 16 December 2009)
• Letter to Ann Keen MP from Tim Statham OBE in response to Achieving excellence in kidney care: Delivering the National Service Framework for Renal Services (added 15 December 2009)
• HSJ article 14 December 2009: Kidney care improvement hampered by insufficient home dialysis, warn charities (added 15 December 2009)
• Department of Health Mid-term report: Achieving excellence in kidney care: Delivering the National Service Framework for Renal Services (added 14 December 2009)
• Design an iconic item for World Kidney Day (added 10 December 2009)
• CAPD Patient Sails Atlantic Solo (added 9 December 2009)
• NKF 2010 diary (added 8 December 2009)

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Membership and Fundraising

Become a Friend of the NKF

The National Kidney Federation is a charity, run by patients, for patients; it relies totally upon the generosity of those who support it. Without donations it cannot succeed, – with donations the lives of thousands of kidney patients and their carers can be improved.

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Other ways you can Help

Click here for more details on Online Donations.

Leave a legacy to the NKF

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The NKF is the national Kidney Patient charity in the United Kingdom.

The Federation’s aim throughout the UK is to promote both the best renal medical practice and treatment, and the health of persons suffering from Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) or Established Renal Failure (ERF).

The NKF also supports the related needs of those relatives and friends who care for kidney patients.

The National Kidney Federation is registered in England and Wales as a Company limited by guarantee (Company No 5272349) and awarded charitable status (Charity Number 1106735). Give as You Earn contributions No. CAF GY511.

Registered Office:- The Point, Coach Road, Shireoaks, Worksop, Notts S81 8BW, Tel: (01909) 544999, Fax: (01909) 481723, Helpline: (0845) 601 02 09, E-mail:

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