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Find out more about Kidney Beam, a new, free online platform for all kidney patients, offering movement, fitness, physical and emotional wellbeing sessions, designed especially for people living with kidney disease. 

This link is to the progress report, summarising the activities carried out by the organisations that were successfully awarded a grant in Autumn 2018 through NHS Blood and Transplant’s BAME Community Investment Scheme. This scheme aims to financially enable black, Asian and minority ethnic cultural or faith-focused organisations to undertake short-term projects in their community to address concerns and questions about organ donation after death and…

The National Kidney Federation (NKF) are selling highly visible lanyards so other members of the public are aware that the person wearing this is highly vulnerable and to be considerate with social distancing.  If you would like to pre-order a lanyard for £1 please visit https://www.kidney.org.uk/news/social-distancing-lanyards NFK have also been collecting COVID-19 patient’s stories around experiences on shielding and isolation during the pandemic. They have shared…

With COVID -19 and the raised awareness of a lack of diversity in so many arenas it has never been more important than right here, right now, to involve patients in the improvement of health services. Join patients and professionals who discuss – with honesty –  their practical experiences from four leading renal quality improvement programmes. This is the first in a series of  #LearningFrom webinars based…

The RA website contains many helpful documents, and these are constantly being updated. The latest updates can be seen here. The renal professional and patient societies have released a guidance statement on dialysis away from base (DAFB). The RA COVID-19 Renal Community Briefing Call from 10 July 2020 is available to view. The Blood and Transplant Society (BTS) have updated their document which provides information about…