AKPA - Addenbrooke's Kidney Patients Association

13/08/2025

https://akpa.org.uk/funding-opportunity-please-vote/

This is a valuable opportunity to raise funds that will help the NKF continue and expand its vital services that are a lifeline for patients and families. It

13/08/2025

This is a valuable opportunity to raise funds that will help the NKF continue and expand its vital services that are a lifeline for patients and families. It

16/07/2025

For those with diabetes: The compact device that's designed to be implanted under the skin.

Hypoglycemia – a condition in which low blood glucose levels can cause you to feel dizzy, weak, and shaky – can catch you by surprise. It often occurs due to excess insulin, whether it's produced by your body or if you've injected too much of it.

15/07/2025

On Sunday, 12th October, the main day of our Annual Event kicks off.

We’re pleased to welcome Oscar Walton, Renal Dietitian, as one of our special guest speakers!

Oscar will be joining us to talk all about…
Nutrition and kidney disease
The benefits of dietary changes
Plus, what to consider with your protein choices.

To book your place and to learn more about the NKF Annual Event, visit: www.kidney.org.uk/Event/nkf-annual-event-2025

15/07/2025

A conversation to be had in all families or is it too difficult to talk about?

“My life is on hold. I dream of the day when a successful transplant will allow me to book last-minute holidays and explore places."

More people than ever before are waiting for a life-saving organ transplant in the UK – but donor and transplant numbers have fallen.

Christy is waiting for a kidney transplant. She runs her own podcast, Chronically Christy, focusing on people with chronic conditions and the importance or organ transplants.

Christy says:

“Every withheld phone number brings hope that it might be news about a transplant, only to discover it's often just routine test results or something else from the hospital. Dialysis sessions can feel really isolating as well. You can't be spontaneous if you're on dialysis. I’ve never missed a session, but the three-weekly hospital visits make spontaneity impossible.

“I dream of the day when a successful transplant will allow me to book last-minute holidays and explore places I didn’t get to during my travels last time.”

“I know my only chance at a transplant is for more people to become organ donors after death, but I am concerned about misinformation regarding organ donation and that many people avoid discussing death, even though becoming a donor could save up to nine lives.”

We are urging people to take action by registering their decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register and having that vital conversation with loved ones.

Confirming your decision on the Organ Donor register takes just 2 minutes and is the best thing you'll do today.

02/07/2025

Who might like to attend? Let us know if you're going.

28/06/2025

Featured Topics Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Tests to Check Your Kidney Health Understanding Your Lab Values and Other CKD Health Numbers See All Kidney TopicsBrowse By Category Diet and nutrition Diseases and conditi...

09/06/2025

If you attended our Travel & Dialysis webinar hosted by Evgenia Kafousi, Operations Director at bookdialysis yesterday, we hope you found the session useful. If you missed it or would like to watch it again, you can watch it on our website.

🖥️Watch it on our Website - https://www.kidney.org.uk/Event/nkf-webinar-series

09/06/2025

Utilities companies should help to keep you safe, warm, and independent in your home.
Kidney Care UK have been working with utilities companies to make it easy for those living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) to register for extra support by joining the Priority Services Register – it is free to join...

Find out about the Priority Services Register: what it is, how to find out who supplies utilities in your region, and how to apply for support

28/05/2025

Up Next - Travel & Dialysis Webinar

Wednesday 4th June 2025 at 5 PM

We are excited to invite you to a very special webinar where we will explore a new, empowering way to book holiday dialysis treatments with confidence and ease, in just 3 simple steps.

Evgenia Kafousi, Operations Director at bookdialysis, will walk us through this innovative platform — a comprehensive and easy-to-use tool that gives dialysis travellers the freedom to schedule treatments in more than 850 destinations around the world.

Sign up for FREE today - https://www.kidney.org.uk/Event/nkf-webinar-series

28/05/2025

Welcome new followers!

Plans afoot for our 50th Anniversary celebrations. Talking today to our musical director about our Christmas Service this year, “How many choirs shall we have?”

Save Saturday, 6th December 2025. This will be a very special service indeed.

Next thought- Anyone for cricket this Summer?? The AKPA are looking for talent!

13/05/2025

Thank you to our renal nurses, they are diamonds!