Search Tag: World Kidney Day
2023 09 Mar
On the 9th March, we celebrate World Kidney Day, a global campaign aimed at raising awareness of the importance of our kidneys to our overall health. Awareness is critical. It draws attention to the need to adopt preventive health behaviour and measures to reduce one’s risk of kidney disease. Disease awareness is profoundly low; with more awareness...Read more
2020 10 Mar
Starting 20 May 2020, a new law will be implemented in England regulating a new system of deemed, or presumed consent for routine organ and tissue donation. All adults will be considered to have no objection to becoming a donor after they die, unless they have prior registered their decision to ‘opt out’ or confirmed being part of an excluded...Read more