Kidney Care UK has directly and indirectly had a positive impact on the lives of tens of thousands of people with kidney disease over the past decade.
The support we deliver to patients and their families is diverse, whether it's a grant that allows somebody to fuel their car or pay their electricity bill; counselling for the family member of somebody on dialysis that helps them to support their loved one and take care of themselves; or best-in-class patient information that allows a person struggling with a shock diagnosis understand their condition.
As demand for our direct services keeps increasing, and as we continue to raise the profile of CKD and work to support those affected by it, the impact we have grows year on year.
Our impact in 2024
- We provided information, advice and support to over 2,460,000 kidney patients and their families.
- Our teams secured more than £1.9 million in benefits income for families living in hardship across the UK.
- We launched our free dedicated Support Line service, and 3,750 patients and their families were supported by our team.
- We provided direct financial support to almost 1,600 people facing immediate crisis, equal to over £900,000 in financial grants to help people living with CKD pay their bills, cover respite costs, buy household goods, and much more.
- We invested £3.46 million in staff and care services for patients.
- 317,000 printed patient information resources were sent to hospitals, patients and clinics.
- 13,347 Kidney Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) surveys were completed.
- Our team of specialist counsellors delivered more than 1,500 sessions of counselling to those who needed support.
- We established our new Peer Support service which created opportunities for people to seek information and support from someone with lived experience of kidney disease.
- We launched our first ever national awareness campaign, encouraging people to complete our online checker and see if they were at increased risk of developing CKD. In 2024, 118,935 people completed the Kidney Health Checker.
- We had 1,499,645 visitors to the Kidney Care UK website.
- We raised £3.3 million, a 43% increase from 2023!
- Our tireless policy and campaigning work championed the issues that matter most to the kidney patient community, including an Organ Donation Week event in Westminster with NHS Blood and Transplant, and campaigning for national guidelines for energy reimbursement for home dialysis, which into force in Scotland in February.
