Health professionals

If you're a health professional involved with kidney patients, Kidney Care UK offers resources to support your work, from free patient information materials to CPD webinars and services.

Health professionals

  • Resources for kidney health professionals

  • Kidney Kitchen diet and nutrition resources

  • Primary care kidney health resources

  • Pharmacy kidney health resources

  • Shared Haemodialysis Care resources

  • Paediatric nephrology resources (infoKID)

Information and resources for patients

Kidney Care UK's patient information is produced on behalf of and with the kidney community, in partnership with the UK Kidney Association. All our booklets are free to read online or download, or you can order free printed copies for your unit.

Order free patient information for your unit
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Translate patient information

CKD patient information in other languages

Accessing health information for your patients in languages other than English can be difficult. Kidney Care UK offers solutions to help you translate patient information booklets, articles and resources written in English into different languages.
CKD information language support

Refer a patient to Kidney Care UK

Make a patient referral to Kidney Care UK's patient services with our digital forms.

Refer a patient to Kidney Care UK
Awareness and early diagnosis

Support our Bloody Amazing Kidneys campaign

Until they are diagnosed, many kidney patients don't know anything about their kidneys. Our Bloody Amazing Kidneys campaign aims to help identify those most at risk of developing CKD. With your support, we want to start a national conversation about the importance of kidney health.
Help raise awareness of CKD

Funding for innovative patient support projects

Kidney Care UK's Hospital Grants fund a wide range of patient projects, equipment, and staff posts such as renal social workers, physiotherapists, renal counsellors and youth workers. Over the past ten years we've funded care and service improvements in over 70 hospitals providing over £9.5m in funding.
Apply for a Hospital Grant

  • £9.5 million

    invested to improve patient care and services across the United Kingdom over the last 10 years

  • 300 health professionals

    trained in shared haemodialysis care, thanks to the national Shared Care Programme

  • £806,165 in grants

    awarded to individual kidney patients and their families in 2023, to help improve their lives

Kidney patient care improvement projects funded by Kidney Care UK

  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programme

  • Young Adult Kidney Group community for patients aged 16-30

  • Psychosocial care for kidney patients: Level One Training

Kidney disease resources for parents and families

infoKID is an information resource about kidney conditions in babies, children and young people, created in partnership with the British Association for Paediatric Nephrology.

infoKID website

Healthcare professional resources

  • Improving peer support for kidney patients

  • The Difficult Conversations booklet

  • Remote Kidney Care Toolkit
FREE CPD training

Shared HD Care: engage, enthuse and empower your patients

The Shared Haemodialysis Care Virtual Course, funded by Kidney Care UK, brings together a range of healthcare professional and patients, from across the whole of the UK, to demonstrate how shared care makes a difference to a patient’s experience – and how healthcare professionals can begin to set this up in their own renal units.
Find out about Shared HD Care

Patient information booklets in easy read format

Our free patient information booklets about chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury (AKI), dialysis, receiving a kidney transplant and conservative care are available in easy read format to download as a PDF and to order as a printed booklet.

Order or download our easy read patient information booklets

CKD coding and treatment pathways

New research shows that early identification and effective treatment can drastically slow down chronic kidney disease progression and reduce the risk of kidney failure. Our primary care hub includes links to NICE, UK Kidney Association and London Kidney Network resources.

Kidney Care UK primary care resources
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