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.

  • £9.5 million

    invested to improve patient care and services across the UK in the last 10 years

  • 300 health professionals

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

  • 1,499 patients

    provided with grants to help relieve financial pressure at a time of need in 2022

Refer a patient to Kidney Care UK

Make a patient referral to Kidney Care UK's Patient Support & Advocacy Service with our digital form.

Refer a patient to Kidney Care UK
Primary care resources for CKD management

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

Order FREE patient information resources

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. We also have free fistula wristbands and 'Put a lid on it' fistula keyrings available to order.
See our patient information range
Hospital Grants

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

Kidney patient care improvement projects funded by Kidney Care UK

  • Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programme

    Carrie Scuffell, Lead Nurse for enhanced recovery in transplantation, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NHS, explains how a grant of £103,740 from Kidney Care UK has enabled Freeman Hospital to introduce an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programme for kidney transplant patients.

  • Young Adult Kidney Group: the online community for kidney patients aged 16-30

    Young adults living with kidney disease can access free online peer support from the Young Adult Kidney Group (YAKG). It's easy to sign up and join the friendly, welcoming community.

  • Hidden CKD: identifying early disease in high-risk communities

    The Hidden-CKD project is a collaboration between NHS healthcare professionals, charity organisations and a communications agency. It was set up to reduce inequalities in kidney health among the African and Afro-Caribbean community.

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

    Compiled by Professor of Kidney Care Nicola Thomas and Renal Nurse Consultant Eleri Wood, the Peer Support Toolkit aims to improve the uptake of peer support for kidney patients in the UK.

  • The Difficult Conversations booklet

    Difficult Conversations is a guide for kidney health professionals having conversations with people with kidney failure, and their family members, about treatment and care.

  • Remote Kidney Care Toolkit

    A Remote Kidney Care Toolkit for healthcare professionals has been developed using the findings of a LSBU study into kidney patients' experiences of remote appointments.

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

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