What we’ve bought for the hospital

Since its inception in 1992, the charity has spent £100,000s improving the lives of kidney patients at St George’s Hospital. Purchases we have made to improve your stay at St George’s include:

For clinics

• Air conditioning units in clinical areas
• Body Composition Monitor (BCM) – a device that can identify the amount of (excess) fluid a patient is “carrying”
• Refurbishment of the relatives room and day room on Buckland Ward
• Ice machine for Buckland Ward for the summer months
• Vascular access probe

For wards

• Bladder scanners for Buckland Ward (now Champneys)
• Funding free television for all beds on Champneys Ward which would usually cost patients £3 per day and previously on
  • Buckland Ward
  • Buckland Acute Dialysis ward
  • Knightsbridge Dialysis ward
• Bed curtains
• Dialysis chairs

For transplant operations

• Laparascopic stack (in 2005 & replacement in 2016) to enable key hole surgery for donor nephrectomy (more information about our most expensive purchase in the link).
• Immunoadsorption machine to allow ABO incompatible transplants to take place
• Transonic ultrasound machine for vascular access monitoring
• Omnitract device for removing donor kidneys and transplantation
• Lifeport machines to preserve kidneys between removal and transplantation