NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION
Charity number: 1106735
Website: www.kidney.org.uk
Description:
The NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION (NKF) are proud to be the largest kidney patient charity in the UK. Run by kidney patients, for kidney patients.
The NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION was founded in 1978 after independent charities, more commonly known now as Kidney Patient Associations (KPAs), after they realised that they needed a national organisation to fight their cause and extreme demand to improve renal provision.
With an estimated 3.5 million people living in the UK with kidney disease (this represents people at stages 3 to 5 CKD), the NATIONAL KIDNEY FEDERATION are a lifeline of support and hope to patients and families. They work tirelessly to persuade the Government, the Department of Health, NHS Blood and Transplant, and the NHS to provide better treatment and services for kidney patients.
It is vital that we continue to offer our support to those in need as well as to continue to pull the lever of change and transformation within the renal world.
The NKF Freephone Helpline is the only free UK Helpline service dedicated to kidney patients, their families, renal units and health care professionals. The Helpline is manned by two fully trained, experienced advisers.