Living Kidney Donation Zone

• Living Kidney Donor Information

• Transplantation Cost Effectiveness (February 2010, link to Campaigns Zone)
• European threat to Living Donation in the UK (February 2010, link to Campaigns Zone)
• Visualising the emotions of living kidney donation (November 2005)
• An update on Expenses for Living Donors - from the Department of Health (May 2009)
• Expenses for Living Kidney Donors (May 2001)
• Carry an Organ Donor card
• Numbers of Living Kidney Donor transplants in the UK
• Transplant facts
• What’s it really like to donate or receive a Living Donor kidney? Patient experiences
• Whose Kidney is it Now? - by Sue Roff (download as PDF, 215 kB)

Helpful Links

• United Kingdom Guidelines for Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (British Transplantation Society & The Renal Association)
• Human Tissue Authority (HTA) - Information for those considering donating a kidney (in 8 languages)

NKF Living Donor Poster campaign

The NKF, in conjunction with Astellas, released a poster and leaflets to Renal Units in 2009 promoting Living Kidney Donation. Please click the links below to download them.

• Download poster (294 kB, PDF)
• Download leaflet (257 kB, PDF)

The NKF would like to you to print the poster A4 size and display as many as you can in suitable public areas, including Renal Units and Hospital or GP waiting rooms.

Copies of Living Donor leaflets are also available from the NKF Helpline on (0845) 601 02 09.

Some files on this page are in PDF format. If your computer has no PDF reader you may wish to download one by clicking this button:

The National Kidney Federation cannot accept responsibility for information provided. The above is for guidance only. Patients are advised to seek further information from their own doctor.