What was New in 2008

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23 December 2008

• Tell the NKF Survey Zone

24 November 2008

• Book — Eating Well for Kidney Health – Expert guidance and delicious recipes by Helena Jackson, Gavin James and Claire Green
• E-Book — Whose Kidney is it Now? by Sue Roff (PDF, 215 kB)

14 November 2008

• Radio 4 World at One interview with Tim Statham concerning failure to use donated organs in the UK

7 November 2008

Radio Interviews with Marion Higgins and Tim Statham, 6 October 2008:

• Asian Star
• BBC WM
• Nevis Radio
• North Hants 96
• North Sound 1
• Swansea Sound

3 November 2008

• Kidney on Ice — Danish Documentary on Kidney Trafficking Trailer

31 October 2008

• Factsheet: Potassium

22 October 2008

• NKF “Imagine” Poster series

8 October 2008

• NHS Launches ’Flu jab Campaign

4 October 2008

• A Dialysis Manifesto — Better Dialysis Services, Saving Lives and Improving the Quality of Lives

2 October 2008

• NKF hits back at The Independent Newspaper

29 September 2008

• RCP Publishes National Guidelines on CKD

9 September 2008

• Donating to a Stranger — One Way to Help Solve the Kidney Shortage
• No Kidneys: No Cry - by Michael O’Sullivan

1 September 2008

• NKF Appeal on NICE Kidney Cancer Appraisal Consultation Document
• Wyeth Press Release — Wyeth concerned for renal cell cancer patients in the UK

8 August 2008

• Press Release — The NKF is incensed by the decision of NICE

6 August 2008

• NKF Christmas Cards

8 July 2008

• Download the NKF Poster (Colour, PDF)
• Postcard from... Roy Bradbury Taking the Plunge and booking that Holiday
• Postcard from... Janice Leach Booking-up a Bournemouth holiday
• Postcard from... A weekend in Switzerland by Roger Ashelford

23 June 2008

• Read the special online Edition of Kidney Life

29 May 2008

• Emergency Kidney Support Fund for Sichuan Disaster announced by Hong Kong Kidney Foundation

19 May 2008

• New Horizons — Details and booking form for 2008 Patients’ Conference

21 April 2008

• It’s OK to be scared — Mark Mountford’s Live Donation to his brother

18 April 2008

• NHS Medical Director writes to all Trusts about Implementing Task Force Recommendations
• Letter from Ann Keen MP to the NKF on Clinical Waste Disposal at Home, 13 February 2008

2 April 2008

• Vascular Risk Assessment Checks Announced 1^st April 2008

18 March 2008

• My experience of receiving a kidney from my sister - by Douglas Ross

17 March 2008

• Leaflet — Reimplantation of Ureters

5 March 2008

• Radio discussion with Ray Mackey on payment for organs

28 February 2008

• Lord Darzi speaks on NHS Review

19 February 2008

• Leaflet — Rebecca has a Renal Biopsy

4 February 2008

• Leaflet — Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome
• Leaflet — Medications used in the Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure following Transplantation in Children — uses and side-effects

1 February 2008

• Kidney Transplants Explained - book by Dr Andy Stein, Dr Rob Higgins & Janet Wild RGN

17 January 2008

• Interview with Elisabeth Buggins on the report of the Organ Donation Task Force
• Organ Donation Task Force report - January 2008 (PDF, 640kB)
• Organ Donation Task Force Supplement - January 2008 (PDF, 990kB)

16 January 2008

• Organ Donation Task Force Report is vindication of NKF campaign

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