NKF Campaigns Zone:
Renal National Service Framework

In this area you will find details of the Renal National Service Framework (Renal NSF) produced by the UK Department of Health and what the NKF is doing to ensure this document has maximum benefit for Renal Patients:-

(NB Some of the following links are PDF files on this web site. Please click here to go to another page on this web site with information on how to download this type of file.)

• 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)
• Department of Health Mid-term report: Achieving excellence in kidney care: Delivering the National Service Framework for Renal Services (PDF 1.2MB - added 14 December 2009)
• National Service Framework for Renal Services update October 2007 (PDF 3 pages 40kB - added 6 November 2007)
• NKF Submission to UK Dept. of Health on Palliative Care for Adults in Renal Services - July 2006 (added 15 August 2006)
• Letter from NKF asking MPs who are members of the APPKG to seek adjournment debate on ‘Services for kidney patients’ (added 20 March 2005)
• NKF welcomes action on the Renal NSF (with (1) Commissioners Toolkit, (2) Criteria for monitoring implementation of Renal NSF and (3) Guidelines for Identification, Management and Referral of patients with CKD) (updated 7 June 2005)
• NKF Statement following launch of Part 2 of Renal NSF (added 3 February 2005)
• National Service Framework for Renal Services - Part 2 - Chronic Kidney Disease, Acute Renal Failure and End of Life Care launched by UK Dept. of Health in February 2005 (PDF, 41 pages, 234 Kb) - (added 4 February 2005)
• NKF Statement following launch of Part 1 of Renal NSF (added 14 January 2004)
• National Service Framework for Renal Services - Part 1 - Dialysis and Transplantation launched by UK Dept. of Health in January 2004 60 pages, 303 Kb) - (added 14 January 2004)
• NKF launch a report «Renal Revelations’ to encourage informed discussion and debate surrounding the publication of the Government’s Renal National Service Framework (added 29th November 2003)
• Click here to find out the background to the Renal NSF (including the launch of Kidney Alliance Report on ‘End Stage Renal Failure - A Framework for Planning and Service Delivery’ in January 2001)