The charity has directly and indirectly impacted tens of thousands of patients over the past decade.
The type of impact that we have on patients and those affected by CKD is diverse, whether that is on a kidney patient who receives a grant so that they can fuel their car or pay their electricity bill, a family member of a dialysis patient who needs counselling so they can better support their loved one, or a newly diagnosed kidney patient looking for information on eating well with CKD.
As demand for our direct services continues to grow and as we continue to raise the profile of CKD and how the charity can support those living with and affected by the condition, the impact that we make grows year on year.
Our impact in 2023
- We provided information, advice and support to over 1,300,000 kidney patients and their families.
- Our team secured more than £1.5m in benefits income for families living in hardship.
- More than £806,000 was awarded in patient grants to help people living with CKD pay their bills, cover respite costs, buy household goods and much more.
- We invested £2.6m in staff and care services for kidney patients.
- We achieved PIF TICK accreditation, a quality mark for healthcare information. This means that all of our free patient information is evidence-based, clear, reliable, trustworthy and produced to the best possible standard.
- More than 159,000 printed information resources were sent to hospital, patients and clinics.
- Our team of specialist counsellors delivered more than 1,800 sessions of counselling to kidney patients and their families.
- We worked with Wales & West utilities and the Welsh Renal Network to launch our expanded welfare and wellbeing service across the whole of Wales.
- We had more than 1,000,000 visitors to the Kidney Care UK website.
- We raised more than £2.34m for people living with kidney disease.
- Our policy and campaigning work championed the issues that matter most to the kidney patient community. This included an Organ Donation Week event in Westminster, working with NHS Blood and Transplant, and campaigning for the new opt-out donation law in Northern Ireland.
