NKF Campaigns Zone:
Transplantation & Live Donors

In this area you will find details of NKF campaigns to promote Transplantation and Live Donations:-

• Transplant 2013 — Organ Donation and Transplantation in the NHS (link to Joint Campaigns - added 21 September 2011)
• Victory for Kidney patients on EU Directive (link to News - added 17 March 2010)
• Transplantation Cost Effectiveness (added 10 March 2010)
• Submission from NKF to Miroslav Mikolasik, Anna Rouillard et al. on Proposed European Organ Donation Directive (link to Letters - added 3 March 2010)
• European threat to Living Donation in the UK (added 22 February 2010)
• Progress to date in implementing Organs for Transplant — presentation by Elisabeth Buggins CBE DL to the All-Party Parliamentary Group, October 2009. (added 28 October 2009)
• Whose Kidney is it Now? - by Sue Roff (download as PDF, 215 kB) (added 24 November 2008
• NHS Medical Director writes to all Trusts about Implementing Task Force Recommendations (added 18 April 2008)
• Organ Donation Task Force Report is vindication of NKF campaign (added 16 January 2008)
• UK Transplant Campaign — My Life, My Gift (October 2007 - February 2008) (added 27 September 2007)
• The European Community (EC) and Transplantation (updated 2 August 2007)
• Dr Evan Harris MP – Best efforts on organ donation may not be enough – says leading MP (added 26 April 2007)
• Transplant Manifesto - More Transplants, Saving more Lives (full report and associated documents, interview) (added 26 October 2006)
• Living transplants reach all time high (UK Transplant Press Release) (added 8 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)
• NKF Appeal against NICE Final Appraisal Determination (FAD) on Immunosuppressive Therapy for Renal Transplantation - includes downloadable PDF copy of the FAD (31 January 2004) (Added 28 February 2004)
• UK Transplant Campaign - Leave more than Memories (December 2003) (Added 11 January 2004)
• Transplantation Cost Effectiveness, UK Transplant Press Release 287/03 - 7 December 2003 (Added 19 December 2003)
• (Final) NKF submission to the NICE Appraisal on “Immunosuppressive therapy for renal transplantation”, 2nd November 2003 (added 7 December 2003)
• NKF Press Release, 7th October 2003 - NKF Chief Executive comments on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Appraisal on Immunosuppressents (added 7 December 2003)
• Saving Lives, Valuing Donors - A Transplant Framework for England (copy of a Department of Health Press Release, July 2003 - includes linked copy of the Transplant Framework) - (added 30 September 2003)
• Skin Cancer in Renal Transplant Patients (added 24 January 2003)
• Millions asked to vote for life by Local Authorities (added 23 September 2002)
• Information for Living Donors (separate zone of this website)
• (Revised) NKF submission to the NICE Appraisal on ‘Immunosuppressive therapy for renal transplantation’, 6 September 2002 (added 7 December 2003)
• (First) NKF submission to the NICE Appraisal on ‘Immunosuppressive therapy for renal transplantation’, 15 May 2002 (added 26 May  2002)
• An end to a Shortage of Kidney Donors? (for your participation) (added 26 May 2002)
• Donor Leaflets in Public Places (for your participation)

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