NKF Letters

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This area of the site contains letters that the National Kidney Federation has received from or sent to individuals and organisations.

If you have views on, for example, the treatment of kidney disease in the UK or the way carers of patients are helped, and would like to contribute a letter to these pages, then please send your letter to the NKF (details below).

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Current Letters

Dates indicated below are those of the latest letter on each page:

• E-mail from Len Woodward to Denis Crane, NKF Advocacy Officer North on aHUS and aHUSUK (26 October 2011)
• Letter from Laurence Evans to Tim Statham OBE, NKF Chief Executive on Consultation by the Department of Health on proposed implementation approach for the Organ Directive (25 October 2011)
• Letter from Beverley Matthews to Tim Statham OBE, NKF Chief Executive on Workshop with NKF and Patient representatives (25 October 2011)
• Open Letter from Atish Rajkomar to all Home Dialysis Patients and Carers on improving safety and usability of machines (9 September 2011)
• Letter from Sir Gordon Duff, Department of Health to Timothy Statham OBE, NKF Chief Executive, giving Terms of Reference for inquiry into processing error on the Organ Donor Register (9 June 2010)
• Letter from Sally Johnson, Director of Organ Donation and Transplantation NHSBT to Timothy Statham OBE, NKF Chief Executive, concerning processing error affecting some donors’ wishes (12 April 2010)
• Letter from Anne Keen MP (Under Secretary of State for Health) to John Mann MP about the current state of renal care (31 March 2010 – PDF, 410 kB)
• Submission from NKF to Miroslav Mikolasik, Anna Rouillard et al. on Proposed European Organ Donation Directive (3 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 (15 December 2009)
• Letter from Ann Keen MP to Tim Statham OBE on the Dialysis Manifesto (27 April 2009 - PDF, 1.64 MB)
• Letter from Ann Keen MP to Dr Evan Harris MP on the Dialysis Manifesto (2 December 2008)
• NKF Appeal on NICE Kidney Cancer Appraisal Consultation Document (29 August 2008)
• Letter from Ann Keen MP to the NKF on Clinical Waste Disposal at Home (13 February 2008)
• Letter from World Kidney Day to the NKF (9 June 2007)
• NKF Letter to the Scottish Kidney Federation confirming status (20 April 2007)
• Vascular Access Joint Working Party Report (Letter and Report) (3 October 2006)
• NKF letter asking YOU to download and send questionnaire to Parliamentary Candidates in your area (20 March 2005)
• NKF Submission to the House of Commons Health Select Committee enquiry into OBESITY in the UK (sent 23 April 2003) (6 January 2004)
• Open letter to UK Kidney patients who have received a kidney transplant from abroad (20 September 2003)
• Letter to Evan Harris MP requesting a meeting to discuss renal problems(6 March 2003)
• Letter to UK Renal Unit Directors from Gordon Nicholas (Chairman, NKF) on 'Skin Cancer in Renal Transplant Patients' (10 December 2002)
• Letter from Dr John Marsden (Chairman, WKPA) to Tim Statham (Chief Exec, NKF) on the 'Tertiary Provision of Paediatric Nephrology in Wales' (23 September 2002)
• Letter from Mrs Gloria Owens (WKPA) to Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn (Minister of State for Health) on the 'Future of Specialised Healthcare for the Children of Wales' (6 September 2002)
• Reply to the letter by the British Transplant Society Ethics Committee (below, May 2000) on Paired Exchange Kidney Donation, from Caroline Morrell (13 March 2002)
• Letter to Dr Peter Doyle (Dept of Health) from NKF on Transplantation in the UK (10 March 2001)
• Letter about Copper intake and metabolism and its possible long term effect on the heart (9 June 2000)
• Letter from the BMA: Organ Donation - Time for a Consolidated Approach (22 May 2000)
• Paired Exchange Kidney Donation - views sought by the British Transplant Society Ethics Committee (3 May 2000)
• Organ Donor Choice (23 February 2000)
• Helpline (13 February 2000)

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