Patient journey

This section of our website is addressed to anyone who would like to know more about being a kidney transplant patient – waiting for a transplant, what it involves, and life after the transplant. To help us write this section we talked to patients who have successfully received a kidney transplant and are living normal, healthy lives.

UK NKF - Transplant Manifesto - October 2006

The All-Party Parliamentary Kidney Group has always had a particular focus on transplantation. It is obvious that the Government shares their interests and it too has been active in the area. The Government produced Saving Lives, Valuing Donors – a framework for England in July 2003, a National Service Framework in January 2004 and the Human Tissue Act in 2004. However, although it is early days there is still no sign of any significant increase in transplant rates.

That is why the All Party Group felt it was useful to hold a summit and produce a Transplant Manifesto. They do not claim that it is comprehensive, but feel that it identifies many of the current constraints and challenges facing the field. As MPs they will use
it as a basis to question, debate with and challenge the Government and hope it will also be a useful reference for clinicians and patients.

To read the foreword to the report by Dr Evan Harris MP click http://www.kidney.org.uk/minutes/transplant-manifesto.html

or click here for a full copy of the transplant manifesto report http://www.kidney.org.uk/minutes/APPKG-transplant-document.pdf