NKF Campaigns Zone:
Dialysis

In this area you will find details of NKF campaigns to promote better Dialysis for Renal Patients:-

• Open Letter from Atish Rajkomar to all Home Dialysis Patients and Carers on improving safety and usability of machines (link to Letters - added 9 September 2011)
• 4^th Annual Symposium on Home Dialysis to be held in Manchester, September 2011 (added 2 August 2011)
• NHS Kidney Care welcomes Secretary of State’s commitment to home dialysis (added 18 February 2010)
• Home Dialysis — What Options are Offered Survey (link to Surveys - added 3 February 2010)
• Home Dialysis Working Group (added 17 March 2010)
• 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 (link to Letters - added 15 December 2009)
• HSJ article 14 December 2009: Kidney care improvement hampered by insufficient home dialysis, warn charities (added 15 December 2009)
• Statement of Home Dialysis ambitions (added 29 April 2009)
• A Dialysis Manifesto — Better Dialysis Services, Saving Lives and Improving the Quality of Lives (updated 4 October 2008)
• Quality and Patient Experience (added 16 November 2007)
• Payment for Haemodialysis Treatment whilst away from Home Unit - Correspondence between the NKF and UK Dept. of Health (updated 25 June 2007)
• Answers to Parliamentary Questions including those about Dialysis (updated 25 June 2007)
• What a New Dialysis Centre should include in order to meet patient needs (added 22 May 07)
• Journey Times to Haemodialysis Campaign (added 9 March 07)
• Haemodialysis Patient Transport (2 Reports published) (added 1 November 2006)
• NKF Submission to the Scottish Medicines Consortium on Lanthanum carbonate (Fosrenol) - 28 February 2006 (added 27 June 2006)
• NKF submission to NICE on Cinacalcet HCI for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with end stage renal disease on maintenance dialysis therapy - November 2005 (added 13 April 2006)
• NKF scoops first place in British Renal Society (BRS) scholarship (re NKF Anaemia Survey Poster) (added 21 June 2005)
• NKF’s letter to NICE on Anaemia Management in Chronic Kidney Disease Guideline (added 2 November 2004)
• Results of the NKF Anaemia Survey - August 2004 (added 2 November 2004)
• Renal Revelations - a Report for discussion (Link Added to this page 7 September 2004)