KPA – Guy's and St Thomas' Kidney Patients Association

  The KPA had six runners in this year’s London Marathon on 22nd April, between them they raised approximately £10 000 for the charity. Rachel, Carolyn, Michelle, Chris, Ciara and Zoe were this year’s KPA runners. They all have a keen interest in raising funds to support kidney patients. As well as working hard to train for the race they also worked hard to get…

 ‘I CAN DO IT’: To celebrate World Kidney Day on 8th March, the KPA commissioned a specialist company to run a workshop for kidney patients.   The workshop offered help in presentation skills, employment legal advice and each person attending received a personal CV (personal statement which may assist you when applying for a job). Spectrum, the specialist employment company, along with one of our patients, Maddy Warren, put…

  This year the Christmas party held at the Camberwell dialysis unit took place on the 17th December. It was a great success and a lot of effort and time went into the fabulous outfits that were worn by the staff, patients and relatives.  It was a fantastic turn out, the food was splendid with lots of different cultural dishes, there was a team of…

  We, the members of the Guy’s adult transplant team who were selected for the world transplant games would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support and funding, which enabled us to compete in Sweden. All three of us feel very proud to represent the UK in our chosen sports (including badminton, long jump and swimming). Each member was lucky enough to…