This is our to-do list for editors and authors. Tables are sortable by clicking on headings, e.g. clicking on Priority or on Editor. These sortable tables don’t work well on small devices. Editors can amend this page directly. Contact us if you have an idea or content that we should consider. 

Commissioned entries and tasks

 

Section	Task	Editor	Priority
Timeline	AKI: add lab research from 1940-55.	Neil	1
Resources	Catalogue for books in RCPE library and elsewhere	Neil	3
Themes	UK Research timeline: make a timeline at Great British Research analogous to that previously published by KRUK, but vertical as at Time timeline	Neil	3
Profess	Videos: Neil to add John’s annotations, chapters	Neil	1
Profess	Video/ audio editing Rosemary Baillod: Interview online, still to be edited Stewart Cameron: Interview to be posted with timings Anne Eady: Interview to be edited. (Anne was also a carer) Sally Taber: Interview to be posted with timings Marianne Vennegoor:	Neil	2
Profess	Stanley Shaldon: expand page and link to the Baillod interview once posted	Neil	3
Research	IgAN (Leicester): John F is in contact with Jon Barratt	John	2
Research	Amyloidosis: Chris has drafted a UK-centric version which will be sent to Helen Lachmann. Publish end of September anyway?	Joyce, Chris	2
Research	Immunosuppressive drugs for transplantation: Joyce chasing Ian McPhee, and interviewing Geoff Koffman	Joyce	2
Research	Oxygen sensing  Point anyone who might know more to Chris’ post	Chris	2
Research	aHUS: follow up with Neil Sheerin, Edwin Wong	Neil	1
Challenges	Diversity: Joyce may add her views; John will ask Mumtaz Patel.	Joyce	2
Challenges	Tuberous sclerosis – case study in funding new high cost therapy. Chris Kingswood unresponsive; ?Joyce to write outline. (? consider Nick Annear (St Georges)?)	Joyce	4
Unit	Manchester from Platt to Mallick.  Witness Seminar held  in Oct 2024. Text will follow.	John	4
Unit	ALL UNITS without posts – glean info from 2018 Renal Assoc fragments, post ‘stubs’ and send to contacts	Neil, various	2
(all)	Whole-site review.  Go through section by section reviewing content, gaps, format, illustration, linking to other pages and externally. For consistency in approach. Allocations tbc. From mid 2025.	ALL	2
General/ tech	Add photo album facility storage of images beyond those displayed on pages	Neil	3

 

Unit Histories

Progress with aggregating histories of the UK’s main renal units, meaning units where there are permanent nephrology staff. To read the histories themselves, see Unit histories, though you can also click on linked unit names below.

This is work in progress – please contact us if you have additional information. To help with creating ‘stub’ articles we are pulling across some info from an old archive of the Renal Association website’s directory.  See below the table for details of how to access that. 

Unit	First dialysis	First transplant	First nephrologist	Second nephrologist	Comments
Aberdeen	1968		Calum Macleod	Neil Edward	then Graeme Catto, Alison Macleod
Airdrie	1987		Bill Smith	Ilona Shilliday	Monklands
Antrim	1995		Camille Harron	Robert Mullan	Antrim Area Hosp
Basildon	1995		Steve Morgan	Ian ……..
Belfast City	1959	1968	Mollie McGeown	Ciaran Docherty	City Hospital
Belfast children			Maurice Savage	…
Belfast Ulster	2003		John Smyth	…	Ulster Hospital
Birkenhead	1995		Alex Crowe	Peter McLelland	Arrowe Park Hosp
East Birmingham	1963		Brian Robinson	John Hawkins	Later named Heartlands
QE Birmingham	1974	1980	Jonathan Michael	Jo Adu
Birmingham children			Richard White	Mark Taylor
Bradford	1994		Robin Jeffrey	Russell Roberts
Brighton	1965		Paul Sharpstone	Anthony Trafford
Bristol	1966	1968	Campbell Mackenzie	Peter Harrison	Southmead Hosp
Bristol children			Tim Chambers	Mary McGraw
Cambridge	1969		David Evans	John Bradley	Addenbrooke’s
Canterbury	1972		Don Prosser	Michael Goggin
Cardiff	1963	1967	John Henry Jones	Gerald Coles	Univ Hosp Wales
Cardiff paeds			Kate Verrier-Jones	Fiona Jewkes
Carlisle	1990		David Bennett-Jones	Paul Mead	Cumberland Infirmary
Carshalton	1964		Anthony Eisenger	Michael Bending	St Helier Hosp ?1967
Chelmsford	1994		Mike Weston		Broomfield Hosp
Colchester	2006		Gabor Czerep
Coventry	1995		David Dukes	Mair Edmunds
Derby	1969		Geoffrey Cohen	Richard Fluck
Doncaster	2004
Dorchester	1996		Joanne Taylor		Dorset County Hosp
Dudley	1965		Steven Smith		Russells Hall Hosp
Dumfries	1995		Christopher Isles
Dundee	1965		Bill Stewart
Dunfermline (Fife)	1995		David Jenkins	Morwenna Wood	Services relocated to Kirkcaldy.
Edinburgh	1959	1960	James Robson	Anne Lambie
Exeter	1969	1969	Harry Hall	Terry Feest
Glan Clwyd	1980				Rhyl
Glasgow Royal	1959	1958	Arthur Kennedy	Michael Boulton-Jones	1964 for CRF. Glasgow QE from 2015
Glasgow Western			Douglas Briggs	Brian Junor	Glasgow QE from 2015
Glasgow Stobhill			Alistair McDougall		Glasgow QE from 2015
Glasgow children	1972		Gavin Arneil	Anna Murphy	Estab at Yorkhill; now at Glasgow QE site
Gloucester	1988		Richard Banks	Tony Williams	Gloucester Royal
Gwynedd	1985		Lionel Bloodworth		Bangor
Hull	1969		Les Sellars	Malcolm Farr	David Eadington, Sunil Bhandari
Inverness	1976		Robert Peel	Stewart Lambie	Raigmore Hosp
Ipswich	1987		Paul Williams	Gerald Glancey
Kilmarnock	1990		Ian ….	Andrew Innes	Crosshouse Hosp
Leeds General Infirmary	1956		Aleck Brownjohn	John Turney	Acute from 1956.  Maintenance from 1964 led by Frank Parsons. Later integrated on St James’s site
Leeds children	1978		Roy Meadow	Trevor Brocklebank
Leeds St James’s	1966	1973	Stanley Rosen	Sandy Davison	Transplant led from  1973 by Geoffrey Giles. Earlier sporadic transplants at LGI
Leicester	1974	1974	John Walls	John Feehally
Lincoln			Jane Little	Matthew Williams
Liverpool	1978		Abraham Abraham		1978 Royal Liverpool; 2002 Aintree – but must be older
Liverpool children	1968		Brian Judd		Alder Hey Hosp
London – Barts	1965	1971	Bill Cattell	Larry Baker	joined Royal London in 1990s
London – Charing Cross (Fulham)	1964	1967	Hugh de Wardener	Peter Gower
London – Guy’s children	1968	1968	Cyril Chantler	George Haycock	Evelina Hosp
London – GOS children	1985		Martin Barratt	Michael Dillon	Great Ormond Street Hosp
London – Guy’s	1966	1967	Stewart Cameron	Chisholm Ogg
London – Hammersmith	1946		Jo Joekes
London – King’s College Hosp	1966	1967(?)	Victor Parsons	Michael Weston
London – Middlesex (3Ps)	1959		AR Harrison	‘Jo’ Joekes	1965 chronic
London – National Kidney Centre	1966	–	Stanley Shaldon	John Moorhead	(non-NHS)
London – Royal London	1958		Frank Marsh	Frank Goodwin
London – Royal Free	1964	1959	Stanley Shaldon	Paul Sweny
London – St George’s	1989	1994	John Eastwood	Tony Wing
London – St Mary’s	1969	?	Stan Peart	Barry Hulme
London – St Thomas’			Norman Jones	Tony Wing
London – Westminster			Lavinia Loughridge
Londonderry	2005			Peter Garrett	Altnagelvin
Manchester Royal	1960	1968	Geoffrey Berlyne	Netar Mallick	1965 for ESRF
Manchester Withington	1968		Tony Ralston	Peter Ackrill
Manchester children			Ian Houston	Bob Postlethwaite
Middlesbrough	1981		Rodney Cove-Smith	Andrew Paterson
Newcastle RVI	1957		David Kerr	Walter Elliott
Newcastle	1963		Bob Wilkinson		RVI amalgamated with Freeman
Newcastle children	1981		Malcolm Coulthard		At RVI
Newry	1998		John Harty		Daisy Hill Hosp
Northampton			Robert Preston	Warren Pickering
Norwich	1971
Nottingham	1970	1974	Martin Knapp	Richard Burden	(1974?) Transplants  led by Roger Blamey (transplant & breast surgeon)
Nottingham children	1985		Alan Watson	Jonathan Evans
Omagh	1989				Tyrone County Hosp
Oxford	1967		Des Oliver	Chris Winearls
Pembury	never		Arnold Osman	–	Established 1947
Peterborough			Chandra Mistry	Frieder Kleeman
Plymouth	1981		Hugh Leather	Richard McGonigle	Derriford Hosp
Portsmouth	1967	1972	Michael Darmady	Adolf Polak	1947 at Salisbury q.v.; Portsmouth 1967
Preston	1985		Bob Coward	Laurie Solomon
RAF Halton	1957		Ralph Jackson	David Rainford
Reading	1987		Ramesh Naik	Lndsay Barker	Royal Berks
Salford	1981		Annie Holmes	Steve Waldek
Salisbury Wroughton	1947		Michael Darmady		Acute HD for a year or two. Later Portsmouth.
Sheffield	1995		Margaret Platts	Peter Moorhead	Surely not 1995?
Shrewsbury	1979
Southampton	1995		Mary Rogerson		(?)
Southampton children			Rodney Gilbert
Southend	1982		David Carmichael	Mike Almond
Stevenage	1995		Roger Greenwood	Ken Farringtom	Lister Hosp
Stoke on Trent	1980		Geoffrey Aber	Patrick Naish
Sunderland	1970		Tony Martin	Mary McHugh
Swansea	1985		Andrew Williams		Morriston Hosp
Truro	1988		John Barnes	Paul Johnston	Treliske Royal Cornwall
Wolverhampton	1995		Maurice Jackson	Paul Rylance	New Cross
Wrexham	1989		Peter Drew	Peter Rutherford	Wrexham Maelor Hosp
York	1999		David Worth	Colin Jones

 

Unit pages from Renal Association 2017

An older version of the Renal Association (now UKKA) website had a page for each UK renal unit, with space for some historical information. This is reproduced here as a sometimes useful resource for populating new history pages. The pages were downloaded on 11 April 2017, but many were updated long before – so Archive, not up to date information! To prevent Google indexing these pages and serving them to people looking for up to date information, we have removed the direct link. 

To go to the 2017 pages, replace PREFIX with ARCHIVE in this url:  https://ukkidneyhistory.org/PREFIXunits-renal-org-4-Oct-2018 – copy and paste manually then make this change before hitting Return/Enter.

From that page, a sortable view and additional info can be viewed by clicking on ‘Advanced View’.

About formatting on this page

Other table options are unsatisfactory. None work well on small devices. Tablepress looks quite nice, but you have to edit each table outside the page. The solution we’ve used requires going into the html if you want to add/delete rows or columns, or to otherwise alter format. It’s at ‘Text’ above right if you are a logged in editor – but please ask.

 

 

Last Updated on September 29, 2025 by neilturn