Kidney Matters Issue 13 - Summer 2021
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease. This issue includes features on music and mental heath, a transplant patient rediscovering a love of art to keep herself motivated, a teacher and CKD patient who helped anyone struggling with home-schooling their children during lockdown, medical articles about having a stent removed after a transplant, chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disease and how weight management can affect kidney patients following transplant. As well as this, the Kidney Kitchen explains how tomatoes can be safely included in your diet and shares a simple and tasty tomato pasta recipe especially prepared for kidney patients.
Kidney Matters is our free quarterly magazine for everyone affected by kidney disease.
This issue includes features on music and mental heath, a transplant patient rediscovering a love of art to keep herself motivated, a teacher and CKD patient who helped anyone struggling with home-schooling their children during lockdown, medical articles about having a stent removed after a transplant, chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disease and how weight management can affect kidney patients following transplant.
As well as this, the Kidney Kitchen explains how tomatoes can be safely included in your diet and shares a simple and tasty tomato pasta recipe especially prepared for kidney patients.
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Kidney Care UK working with the
Government, NHS and more than
20 other leading health charities to
boost vaccine drive
In March, Kidney Care UK joined forces
with more than 20 frontline charities to
form a new partnership to encourage
those with long term health conditions
and their carers to get the Covid-19
vaccine.
Organisations including the British Heart Foundation,
Macmillan Cancer Support and Mencap joined with us,
the Government and the NHS on the UK’s largest ever
medical deployment; the charities have been using
the combined strength of their networks to reassure
people with long-term health conditions about the
safety and effectiveness of the vaccine.
Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt
Hancock said:
“The incredible success of our vaccination programme
has only been possible by working in partnership with
the NHS, health and care professionals, local partners
and our volunteers. Having the support of the charities
who work every day to support the very people we are
reaching out to is a great boost for the rollout which
continues to show what we can achieve when we pull
together as one.”
Fiona Loud, Policy Director at Kidney Care
UK, added:
“People with kidney disease are at a significantly
increased risk of severe complications from Covid-19,
and as a result many have been advised to shield for
over a year. We at Kidney Care UK agree with kidney
doctors in recommending Covid-19 vaccination for
kidney patients so it’s really important that everyone
takes up their offer when they are invited to.”
Minister for Vaccines, Nadhim Zahawi,
commented:
The vaccine is our way out of this pandemic and offers
the chance to protect yourself and others – that’s why
it’s vital that people get their jab when called to come
forward. The rollout is a truly UK-wide effort which is
why having the support of these fantastic and trusted
charities as we work to ensure everyone eligible gets
their vaccine is so important. I would like to thank them
all for backing this life-saving campaign and offering their
expertise and assistance to support the largest medical
deployment in British history.”
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