World Kidney Day 2025

World Kidney Day 2025 celebrates early detection and kidney health. Join the global movement – get tested, share your story, and protect your kidneys.
Would YOU donate a kidney if the NHS paid you £35,000?

NHS kidney donation payment scheme 2024 offers vital compensation to living donors. New scheme recognizes organ donor contributions.
‘I donated a kidney to my son-in-law’

Lesley Harrison’s inspiring story of donating a kidney to her son-in-law shows the power of living donation in transforming lives.
Artwork to honour organ donors and their families

New organ donor artwork celebrates the stories of donors and recipients. Powerful visual campaigns raise awareness of 2024 donation initiatives.
Revisiting Patient Stories | My Kidney Transplant Experience (2013)

My Kidney Transplant Experiencehttps://mrikpa.org.uk/wp-admin/edit.php By: Dorothy Shelley, Sunnyside, New York My family and I did not recognize the symptoms initially, so I wasn’t diagnosed with kidney disease until the age of 12. Nine years later on January 18, 1983, at the age of 21, I received a transplanted kidney from my older brother Robert. Thirty […]
Kidney Patient Reported Experience Measure

Kidney Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) lets kidney patients share their care experience anonymously. Help improve kidney services nationally.
World Kidney Day: A Beacon of Hope and Progress

As the Chair of a Kidney Patients’ Association, I am pleased to share with you the remarkable significance of World Kidney Day. This annual event is a beacon of hope and progress for kidney patients and their families worldwide. It’s a day when our global community comes together in an unprecedented show of solidarity, raising […]
Key Dates 2023

Monthly MRI KPA committee meetings We hold a meeting on the first Wednesday of every month. Due to Covid-19 these meetings are currently held virtually. Various topics are discussed including our strategy, issues raised via patients’, updates on discussions with clinicians, concerns and possible solutions over the service provided by Renal or Transplant at MRI, […]
Chat room helps Destiny-Rae, 5, find a new kidney

Five-year-old Destiny-Rae receives kidney from stranger-turned-donor through online connection. Her story of hope, living kidney donation, and the power of community.
Magnificent Manchester at World Transplant Games

It was a brilliant World Games, Perth were amazing hosts and the GB&NI team topped the medal table with 121 Gold, 96 Silver and 71 Bronze medals, a total of 288 medals, including those won by Juniors and Live Donors. Our Manchester Adults did brilliantly. Juliet Lewis won bronzes in the doubles badminton and also […]