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A UK-centric history of nephrology.

Timeline

The first 13 patients in the UK on maintenance haemodialysis

‘Lucky Thirteen’ at the Royal Free Hospital 1965

Pre-Bright to post-modern

Themes

Plans for a transplant unit with glass visiting corridor, 1965

Politics, Machine, Services, IT, more

Resources

From the Stewart Cameron archive at the RCPE

Books, videos, interviews, images, links

Challenges

Cover of A Houseman's Tale by Colin Douglas. 1975 novel set at the time of a lethal hepatitis outbreak in a renal unit.

Renal unit hepatitis in fiction (Colin Douglas 1975)

Hepatitis to Covid via Aluminium

Units

Edinburgh chronic haemodialysis unit, one of the regional units constructed in the late 1960s.

One of the 35 UK regional dialysis units commissioned in the late 1960s (Edinburgh, 1969)

Histories of individual units

About

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Last Updated on August 1, 2024 by neilturn