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Find out more about Kidney Beam, a new, free online platform for all kidney patients, offering movement, fitness, physical and emotional wellbeing sessions, designed especially for people living with kidney disease.
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The team at Aintree have shared their review: The COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on many aspects of health care including the provision of dialysis. Two categories of patients have had the greatest impact on dialysis capacity. Those with COVID-19 related acute kidney injury and those chronic dialysis patients who required isolation or cohort dialysis because of the pandemic.
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This link is to the progress report, summarising the activities carried out by the organisations that were successfully awarded a grant in Autumn 2018 through NHS Blood and Transplant’s BAME Community Investment Scheme. This scheme aims to financially enable black, Asian and minority ethnic cultural or faith-focused organisations to undertake short-term projects in their community to address concerns and questions about organ donation after death and…
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Brilliant shielding CaMKIN Q&A zoom session with the wonderful Dr Hammed Anijeet, Kidney specialists at Royal Liverpool University Hospital; here are some of the conversations Virus is spread primarily from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth, which are expelled when a person with COVID-19 coughs, sneezes, or speaks. Virus does not travel far which is why the current social distancing guideline…
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The National Kidney Federation (NKF) are selling highly visible lanyards so other members of the public are aware that the person wearing this is highly vulnerable and to be considerate with social distancing. If you would like to pre-order a lanyard for £1 please visit https://www.kidney.org.uk/news/social-distancing-lanyards NFK have also been collecting COVID-19 patient’s stories around experiences on shielding and isolation during the pandemic. They have shared…
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