NKF Letters

Welcome to the Letters Page

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).

Please use the menu below to view the letters.

Current Letters

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

• 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)

The National Kidney Federation cannot accept responsibility for the views expressed by others in these letters pages.

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