World Kidney Day 2010

The Dialysis Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge celebrated
World Kidney Day on the 11 March 2010. World Kidney Day is part of an international effort to raise the profile of kidney disease world-wide. It is hoped that by raising awareness of kidney disease more patients will receive earlier and effective treatment preventing the need for dialysis. As part of this education process it also serves to highlight the problems faced by patients who are having dialysis treatment and the difficulties the treatment causes for their families.

By emphasising the importance of transplantation it may go some way to improving kidney donation both within the UK and more widely. Staff from all parts of the renal service took part and can be seen here wearing their World Kidney Day T-shirts.
All who took part enjoyed the celebrations and the day was a great success.
Dr Nick Pritchard Consultant Nephrologist Addenbrooke’s Dialysis Centre

North Warwickshire College (Nuneaton) put on a special WKD event between 2pm and 6pm involving a Talk with Students and staff and players and written information about Kidney Disease (2pm to 4pm ) then a football match between NW Staff and NKF United (National Kidney Federation Football team ) to raise awareness of Kidney Disease.
Further details can be found on http://www.nkfunited.com

Charity show for the Welsh Kidney Patients Association was held on Friday 5^th March. For more details contact Robert on ke2be2@aol.com

Kidney Research UK: Community Events

All events start at 10am unless otherwise stated.

South

Stoke: The Potteries Shopping Centre in Stoke held blood pressure testing and offered free information and guidance on Kidney health.

Nottingham: The Victoria Centre, Nottingham played host to an awareness day with free blood pressure testing for all.

Milton Keynes: Milton Keynes Shopping Centre (Community Desk) was on hand to provide free guidance and information on kidney health.

Bristol: Royal Hospital for Children (Paul O’Gorman Building, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol) holded a World Kidney Day event for families to come along, pick up free information and free balloons for the children, whilst mums and dads could have their blood pressure tested and ask for guidance on kidney health matters.

Bristol: Aztec Hotel & Spa, Bristol holded blood pressure testing and offered guidance and information on kidney health to guests and visitors.

Kidney Research UK: High Street, Kings Heath, Birmingham offered free blood pressure testing as well as helpful information and guidance to all shoppers on World Kidney Day.

North

Middlesbrough: The North East Kidney Patient Association held an World Kidney Day awareness day in James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough from 10.0 0am – 4.00pm. Kidney Research UK staff were on site to provide helpful guidance and free information.
It will be held in the Atrium on the premises and will consist of an NEKPA stand, tombola stand, and Dietitian table. We have also a dialysis machine set up with a patient hooked up to it demonstration only with fluid pumped around it (Non blood) and a committee member dressed as a kidney complete with red tights to help create awareness of CKD

Glasgow: Debenhams, Glasgow will be holding an awareness day with free blood pressure testing and guidance throughout the day.

Hamilton: Hamilton Shopping centre, Scotland will be holding free blood pressure testing for shoppers, with onsite guidance on kidney health matters.

Tracey Harrison, Gill Atherton and Chris Lacey, nurses from St. Luke’s Hospital in Bradford, held a public awareness day on the 11^th of March in Bradford town centre.
Venue: The Arndale Centre
Time: 10am – 4pm
This provided a perfect opportunity to have your blood pressure taken and let one of the diabetic specialist nurses check your blood sugar level.

Lee & Lisa from the Midlands are planning to retrace the steps of "The Italian Job" to raise money for the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Charity.
Follow their progress on http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=420211140532&ref=nf

Dr Nicholas P Vites, Primary Care CKD Lead NHS Manchester gets the stars to back World Kidney Day – from popstar to opera star
– for more, click here

World Kidney Day event at the Lister Hospital
Lister Kidney Federation is a patients’ group representing kidney patients from the Lister, Luton and Dunstable and St Alban’s City hospitals. We are participating in WKD by having a stand at the Lister Hospital on Thursday 11 March 2010 between 10 am and 4pm. We will raise awareness about kidney matters through giving out leaflets and talking about our experiences of kidney diseases. The stand will be in front of the “wishing well” in the main entrance to the Hospital.
There will be patients and doctors on hand, and information on home haemodialysis, with which the Lister is doing exciting work.
contact kirit modi on kiritmodi1@hotmail.com

The Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will have a stand in their main reception foyer, between 10 and 3.
Various members of the Multi Professional Team will be on hand to answer questions about keeping your kidneys healthy. There will be a dietician and diabetic nurse to help with tips for healthy eating.
The aim is to promote the key messages of how to look after your kidneys..

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust gains celebrity support for World Kidney Day
In the run up to World Kidney Day, on Thursday 11 March, Leicester’s Hospitals and eminent Leicester author Sue Townsend are supporting the Kidney Alliance in their drive to ensure patients with kidney disease are spotted early.
During World Kidney Day hospital staff are encouraging people to check if they are at risk of kidney disease. A simple on line test to identify if you are at risk can be found on the NHS Choices website at http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Kidneydisease.aspx?Tag.
Staff from Leicester’s Hospitals and representatives from Leicestershire Kidney Patients’ Association will be manning a World Kidney Day information stand at the Highcross shopping centre on Thursday 11 March. Staff will distribute information about kidney disease and diabetes as well as offering free blood pressure testing.
Those who are concerned that they are at risk of having kidney disease are advised to contact their GP who will be able to undertake simple routine tests to detect kidney problems and advise on any further treatment that may be required.
For more information and to join the Organ Donor Register visit: www.organdonation.nhs.uk

Every year on World Kidney Day, RFHKPA committee members man a presentation & information area at The Royal Free Hospital to promote the relevant renal messages. (Here is a picture featuring some of our team on duty last year).
Because of the high traffic of patients and visitors to the hospital, the team are kept busy throughout the day.
Committee members also collect donations and hand out WKD stickers and information literature.

Two events to celebrate World Kidney Day will be held in the Grampian area on 11th of March 2010.
One at the NHS Grampian healthpoint at Aberdeen Market, and a second at the hotspot, Peterhead, both between 11.00hrs and 15.30hrs.
There will be two specialist renal nurses available at each event to offer kidney health checks and discuss kidney related issues with any members of the public who wish to come along.
There will be a free prize draw at each event for persons filling in one of our evaluation forms, with a prize of vouchers for fruit.

Staff from the Renal Unit for Shropshire and Mid Wales are organizing an awareness day on Sat 6^th March in the Charles Darwin Centre (lower level), Shrewsbury, 10am-4pm. They will be checking blood pressures and having information leaflets available.
The Shropshire and Mid Wales Kidney Patient’s Association will be holding a teddy bear tombola stall. There will be a dietician available for advice. Staff from the Castle Country Club will be giving exercise and fitness advice and have exercise equipment on display. They will be giving out Kidney Research balloons kindly blown up by Clinton Cards.
There is entry into a free prize draw with first prize a month’s family membership to the Castle Country Club, donated by the club and second prize a blood pressure monitor donated by Boots – so well worth a visit.

The Hammersmith Hospital KPA are having an awareness day at the front of the main entrance of Hammersmith Hospital, a selection of stands in the West London Renal Centre including Diabetes, Hypertension, Dietary and a KPA stand raising money for the welfare of patient's, plus a stand in Charing Cross Hospital all manned by a cross selection of KPA members, patients and staff.
This year we have an awareness stand in the Westfield Shopping Centre at White City, totally attended by Staff headed by Maura Appelbe, the staff come from a cross section of departments dealing with problems attributed to Renal failure.

To celebrate World Kidney Day, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire – Warwick University are holding an open day. For more information click here:

The South West Thames Institute for Renal Research will be celebrating World Kidney Day in a big way.
There will be an information stand in the hospital canteen to help educate staff, patients and visitors to the hospital
In an attempt to try and take the message out into the community, the team from SWT Institute will be on hand in the atrium of the Centrale, one of the large shopping centres in Croydon from 10 am to 3 pm.
They will have a range of educational and promotional materials including: playing an educational dvd, education leaflets, questionnaires, diet advice and more.
There will be healthcare professionals on hand from the Mayday and St Helier Hospital to give advice.
The Institute has recently agreed to sponsor a local Rugby team and a couple of members of the team will come to show that The Streatham and Croydon Rugby football club is backing research into kidney disease. The local parliamentary candidates have also been invited.
There will be balloons and badges promoting kidney health.

Professor Locatelli, from Italy, who is the one of the top Kidney Specialist in the World and is President of the European Renal Association and President of the World Conference on Nephrology is visiting The Sheffield Kidney Institute at the Northern General Hospital. He will be joining the staff of the Sheffield Kidney Institute celebrating World Kidney Day at Barkers Pool (Thursday 11th of March, 10-12am)
Making people in Sheffield aware of the problem of kidney disease which is increasing as it affects a growing number of people in our community. We invite the general public to have their blood pressure checked and their urine tested by Doctors and Nurses from the Sheffield Kidney Institute - Northern General Hospital.
Those people found with problems will be referred to their on GP for further tests.

City & East London will celebrate World Kidney Day by having an organ donor and kidney awareness day on March 11th at the Barts and Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel London E1 1BB.
Patients and nurses will be manning information desks giving out information and urging visitors to sign organ donation forms in hospital reception areas.

The Renal Unit at The Royal Derby Hospital will be promoting World Kidney Day. Our multi disciplinary team will be on hand to promote healthy kidneys with weight/BMI checks, blood pressure checks, information about diet, general health eating literature, information on salt/lifestyle with a focus on protecting kidneys and controlling diabetes.

The Fife Hospital Kidney Support Group are having awareness days in the Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and at St Andrews Hospital. They will also have a display in the Kingsgate shopping centre in Dunfermline showing a machine for peritoneal dialysis at nights and pictures of John Fulton on haemodialysis. All these events will be 10 o'clock till 4.

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Southend Renal Unit: To highlight the dangers, Dr Kumar will be at the Rayleigh Weir Sainsbury store on Thursday, March 11, with nurses offering blood pressure and blood sugar checks and handing out leaflets and advice. Staff on the renal unit will be sporting special World Kidney Day T-shirts to spread the message.

To mark World Kidney Day (Thursday 11 March), we will exhibit next week a series of photographic portraits in the reception areas of PRH and the County. The photographs were taken by a young photographer called Holly Cocker who herself received a kidney from a childhood friend. Each of the portraits features a kidney donor and recipient and is accompanied by a few lines telling their story. They are powerful images which beautifully demonstrate how the lives of real people have been transformed through organ donation and each series will conclude with information on how to join the organ donation register. They will be up for a while so if you are passing through please pause and have a look.

Greater Manchester Kidney Care Network

West Sector Awareness campaign
anne.james-burns@srft.nhs.uk Tel 0161 20 61208/Fax 0161 20 65775

In collaboration between the kidney team and Hope Kidney Patient Association:
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (West Sector Centre)

Lunch in the staff & visitor restaurant: healthy options on offer along with a free piece of fruit
Catering staff in the restaurant and shopping plaza wearing WKD t-shirts.
Chairman of Trust to attend lunch in the restaurant as a guest of the Kidney Patient Association.
Information stands in staff and public areas
Screensaver developed and initiated onto internal website for the whole week. This pointed to the link between diabetes and kidney disease and also notified staff of the lunch.

Bolton
ASDA Horwich

In collaboration with communications at ASDA, information stand inside the supermarket

Bolton Hospital

Information stand at main entrance

Rochdale Infirmary
Information stand at main entrance