Renal Clinicians
We work with health professionals at NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) and renal healthcare clinicians.
Our work with healthcare professionals
The rates of pre-emptive living donor kidney transplantation for Black kidney patients have not increased at the same rate as for those of white ethnicities in the UK.
Kathryn Griffiths, King’s College London University
Renal clinicians recognise the need to integrate a tailored- community peer- led intervention into routine clinical practice to increase pre-emptive living donor rates among Black patients and improve equitable access to living donor kidney transplantation.
Gift of Living Donation( GOLD) provide culturally tailored community-specific support and expertise to help clinicians better engage with Black patients about living donation.
We also provide training to help address the cultural barriers to living donation.
We have produced a toolkit to support renal clinicians to implement the phone buddy scheme at their transplant centre. For more information on how we can help you email: Buddy@giftoflivingdonation.org.uk
Simple and effective
Health care professionals recognise the value and benefits of patients from diverse communities having tailored community-led peer support from people who understands both kidney disease and the cultural context, it can make it easier for patients to start conversations about living donation with family and friends.”
80% of patients wanted earlier engagement and support from peer volunteers from the same ethnic background who had experience of living donation to increase and boost their levels of confidence. This holistic approach makes it easier to have the conversation about living donation with their friends and families.
Patients and family members, GSTT/GOLD
Final report of the living transplant initiative
NBTA, 2020, p.32-36
We developed a Quality Improvement Project (QIP) in collaboration with multidisciplinary clinical teams (MDT) across three kidney transplant centres with support from the London Kidney Network (LKN).
This community intervention can facilitate more Black potential living donors, helping to reduce the number of Black patients that need dialysis.
Miri Vutabwarova
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Living Kidney Donation