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Until very recently, John Scoble was the Clinical Director of the renal department at Guy's. He's recently been promoted to 'Associate Medical Director Managed Networks', which is the division at the Trust that contains the renal department. On 29 June, along with fellow kidney doc, Paul Stevens, he set off on the Eurostar on the way to the French Atlantic coast near the Spanish border. From there, they're walking 1000km through the Pyrenean mountains along the GR10 route to the Mediterranean coast. They expect to take around 50 days. |
We're delighted to be able to announce that the KPA has been chosen by the finance division at the Sainsbury's head office as their local charity to support this year. One project they've started is an 'Ebay-a-thon' which has spurred the KPA into action to make it possible for anyone to donate to us via Ebay. You can find us on Ebay here. So if you want to join in and clear out the attic, please feel free!
The renal units at Guy's and Kings College Hospitals are looking at how they might work more closely together. To hear what patients think about this, a meeting was held on Wednesday 29th July. Here's a report about what happened, and a summary of feedback received from patients about how the service could be improved.
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The Transplant Trust's 'National Transplant Week' was from 5 - 12 July 2009. Staff and patients at the Camberwell Dialysis unit organised a progamme of events throughout the week, including a visit from local MP Kate Hoey to open a new 'Garde of Life' (pictured left). KPA Committee member, and dialysis patient at Camberwell has written up what happened. It's here, along with some pictures of the week's events. |
KPA Chair, Andy Williamson took to the skies on Sunday 28th June, and did a sponsored abseil down Guy's Tower, with an added complication: he took his saxophone with him, and stopped halfway down for a duet with double bassist Dave Silk, who also provides the commentary on this video. It turns out that Dave is the great-great-great-great-great nephew of Thomas Guy, who founded Guy's Hospital. It seems that the spirit of eccentricity in the family is alive and well!
Visit Andy's Justgiving site if you'd like to make a donation.
Dialysis Demolition for World Kidney Day 2009
A Night at The Miller, with the Spare Parts Theatre Company - March 2009
November/December 2008 - includes AGM 2008 Agenda (pdf format, which will open in your browser or download)
Some links: The KPA Blog
If you tried to visit this site at the end of November, or early December 2008, you may not have found anything. This was the result of a cock up - our apologies. As you can see it's now working - albeit in a rudimentary fashion for the moment.
Also, if you emailed chair@gsttkpa.org or membership@gsttkpa.org before Friday 5 December 2008, the email will have disappeared. It was not receieved, nor will you have received a bounce. Unfortunately there's no way we can recover these mails, so we have no idea who sent them. Both addresses are NOW working, so please do use them freely. Here are some clickable versions:
chair@gsttkpa.org - to contact the chair of the KPA
membership@gsttkpa.org - send your details in order to join the association. Membership is free to all patients & staff at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital, their family and friends and to all KPA supporters wherever you are. If you are a kidney patient and want to receive the National Kidney Federation's monthly magazine Kidney Matters, be sure to include your postal address.
Andy Williamson, Chair
Sat 6 December 2008