Useful Links
Here are some useful links relating to renal services and kidney disease.
St George’s Hospital Renal Services
http://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/services_renalindex.asp – St George’s own website
UK National Kidney Federation
http://www.kidney.org.uk/ – leading UK renal charity
UK Transplant
http://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/ – the national transplant organisation’s website
Kidney Research UK
http://www.kidneyresearchuk.org/ the leading UK charity funding research that focuses on the prevention, treatment and management of kidney disease.
Transplant Sport UK
http://www.transplantsport.org.uk/
A charity organising sports and social events for transplant recipients. Transplant Sport UK shows the benefits of organ donation and prove that you can lead a normal and active life again after transplantation.
World Kidney Day
http://www.worldkidneyday.co.uk/
An annual global awareness and education event. The last event was on 14 March 2014.
The Urinary Excretory System
https://scribeschool.net/urinary-excretory-system-info-for-scribes.html
A more medical view of the workings of the renal system for those more scientificall minded.
Give us your feedback
We welcome your views on the sites included to here, and if you have any feedback please use the form to the right of the screen or send an email to webmaster@sgkpa.org.uk
Also if you have visited any other sites that you think your fellow patients might find useful then please let us know the site details and why you found it useful.
Of course these are provided for your information but we don’t control and thus warrant the quality of these sites.
And finally…
We recommend the comprehensive set of links provided by the Renal Association site. The Renal Association is the professional body for United Kingdom nephrologists (renal physicians, or kidney doctors) and renal scientists in the UK. – See more at: http://www.renal.org/about-us/about-the-renal-association#sthash.9bFlVdjr.dpuf
The Renal Association Patients’ Pages
http://www.renal.org/whatwedo/InformationResources/Patients.aspx – pages for patients provided by the Renal Association.
