This is our to-do list for editors and authors. It is sortable by clicking on Headings, e.g. by clicking on Priority or on Editor. Editors can amend it directly. Priority 10 = completed, but we’ve taken to deleting completed items now instead.
Contents
| Section | Task | Editor | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timeline | AKI: Working on it. | Neil | 1 |
| Themes | History of UK Renal Pathology Terry Cook – no response. John’s draft with Ian Roberts – prompted Sept 2024 | John | 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 | 2 |
| Themes | Relationships between dialysis companies and renal units Andy Mosson (Oxford, and used to work for Cobe) has delivered. Ask Eric Collins to review, but nearly ready to post. | John | 1 |
| Profess | Videos: Neil to add John’s annotations, chapters | Neil | 1 |
| Profess | Rosemary Baillod: Interview online, still to be edited | Neil | 3 |
| Profess | Stewart Cameron: Interview to be posted with timings | Neil | 3 |
| Profess | Anne Eady: Interview to be edited. (Anne was also a carer) | Neil | 3 |
| Profess | Stanley Shaldon: expand page and link to the Baillod interview once posted | Neil | 3 |
| Profess | Sally Taber: Interview to be posted with timings | Neil | 3 |
| Research | IgAN (Leicester): John F is in contact with Jon Barratt | John | 2 |
| Research | Vasculitis: Caroline Savage says she is near a final version, showing it to Charles Pusey, Andy. Neil to follow up at the end of March. (If clinical trials omitted, ask David Jayne for separate item on that?) | Neil | 1 |
| Research | Amyloidosis: Chris will work up a UK-centric version to show to Helen Lachman. Her RCP lecture is available on line, but is global. | Chris | 2 |
| Research | Immunosuppressive drugs for transplantation: Joyce chasing Ian McPhee, and interviewing Geoff Koffmann | Joyce | 2 |
| Research | Oxygen sensing Chris will chase Chris Pugh again – other options include Patrick Maxwell, … | Chris | 1 |
| Research | aHUS: David Kavanagh, Anna Richards (will run it past Tim Goodship). Neil is chasing again with Neil Sheerin, Edwin Wong in reserve. | Neil | 1 |
| Challenges | Diversity: Gokal piece & Adu comments on race & ethnicity posted. Joyce may add her views; John will ask Chandra Mistry whether he’d like to post his. | Joyce | 2 |
| Challenges | Tuberous sclerosis – case study in funding new high cost therapy. Still promised by Chris Kingswood. If not, consider Nick Annear (St Georges)? | Joyce | 4 |
| Unit | Manchester from Platt to Mallick. Witness Seminar held in Oct 2024. Text will follow. | John | 4 |
| (all) | Whole-site review. Go through section by section reviewing content, gaps, format, illustration. For consistency in approach. Allocations tbc. ?Early 2025 | All | 4 |
Progress with aggregating histories of the UK’s main renal units, meaning units where there are permanent nephrology staff. The UKKA list of units includes satellite units. To read the histories themselves, see Unit histories, or click on linked unit names below
| Unit | First dialysis | First transplant | First nephrologist |
Second nephrologist | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen | 1968 | Neil Edward | Alison Macleod | ||
| Airdrie Monklands | 1987 | Bill Smith | Ilona Shilliday | ||
| Antrim Hospital | 1995 | Camille Harron | Robert Mullan | ||
| Basildon | 1995 | Steve Morgan | Ian …….. | ||
| Belfast City | 1959 | 1968 | Mollie McGeown | Ciaran Docherty | |
| Belfast Sick Kids | Maurice Savage | … | |||
| Belfast Ulster Hospital | 2003 | John Smyth | … | ||
| Birkenhead – Arrowe Park | 1995 | Alex Crowe | Peter McLelland | ||
| East Birmingham (later Heartlands) | 1963 | Brian Robinson | John Hawkins | ||
| QE Birmingham | 1974 | 1980 | Jonathan Michael | Jo Adu | Later UHB |
| Birmingham Childrens | Richard White | Mark Taylor | |||
| Bradford | 1994 | Robin Jeffrey | Russell Roberts | ||
| Brighton | 1965 | Paul Sharpstone | Anthony Trafford | ||
| Bristol | 1966 | 1968 | Campbell Mackenzie | Peter Harrison | Southmead date |
| Bristol paeds | Tim Chambers | Mary McGraw | |||
| Cambridge | 1969 | David Evans | John Bradley | ||
| Canterbury | 1972 | Don Prosser | Michael Goggin | ||
| Cardiff | 1963 | 1967 | John Henry Jones | Gerald Coles | |
| Cardiff paeds | Kate Verrier-Jones | Fiona Jewkes | |||
| Carlisle | 1990 | David Bennett-Jones | Paul Mead | ||
| Carshalton – St Helier | 1964 | Anthony Eisenger | Michael Bending | ||
| Chelmsford – Broomfield | 1994 | Mike Weston | |||
| Colchester | 2006 | Gabor Czerep | |||
| Coventry | 1995 | David Dukes | Mair Edmunds | ||
| Derby | Geoffrey Cohen | Richard Fluck | |||
| Doncaster | 2004 | ||||
| Dorchester – Dorset County | 1996 | Joanne Taylor | |||
| Dudley – Russells Hall | 1965 | Steven Smith | |||
| Dumfries | Christopher Isles | ||||
| Dundee | 1965 | Bill Stewart | |||
| Dunfermline | 1995? | David …. | Morwenna Wood | ||
| Edinburgh | 1959 | 1960 | James Robson | Anne Lambie | |
| Exeter | 1969 | 1969 | Harry Hall | Terry Feest | |
| Glan Clwyd (Rhyl) | |||||
| Glasgow RI | 1959 | 1958 | Arthur Kennedy | Michael Boulton-Jones | 1964 for CRF |
| Glasgow Western | Douglas Briggs | Brian Junor | |||
| Glasgow Stobhill | Alistair McDougall | ||||
| Glasgow Sick Children | Gavin Arneil | Anna Murphy | |||
| Gloucester Royal | Richard Banks | Tony Williams | |||
| Gwynedd (Bangor) | Lionel Bloodworth | ||||
| Hull | Malcolm Farr | David Eadington | |||
| Inverness Raigmore | Robert Peel | Stewart Lambie | |||
| Ipswich | Paul Williams | Gerald Glancey | |||
| Kilmarnock Crosshouse | 1990 | Ian …. | Andrew Innes | ||
| Leeds General Infirmary | 1956 | Aleck Brownjohn | John Turney | Acute dialysis from 1956. First consultants appointed 1980, though some hospital-based maintenance haemodialysis provided from 1964 led by Frank Parsons.
Integrated on St James’s site in 1990s |
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| Leeds (paeds) | Roy Meadow | Trevor Brocklebank | |||
| Leeds St James’s | 1966 | 1973 | Stanley Rosen | Sandy Davison | Transplant led from 1973 by Geoffrey Giles, professor of surgery.
Sporadic transplants at Leeds General before 1973 |
| Leicester | 1974 | 1974 | John Walls | John Feehally | |
| Lincoln | Jane Little | Matthew Williams | |||
| Liverpool Aintree | Abraham Abraham | ||||
| Liverpool Alder Hey (paeds) | Brian Judd | ||||
| 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 (paeds) | 1968 | Cyril Chantler | George Haycock | ||
| London – GOS (paeds) | Martin Barratt | Michael Dillon | |||
| 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 | 1965 | 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 Altnagelvin | 2005 | Peter Garrett | |||
| Manchester Royal | 1960 | 1968 | Geoffrey Berlyne | Netar Mallick | 1965 for ESRF |
| Manchester Withington | 1968 | Tony Ralston | Peter Ackrill | ||
| Manchester paeds | Ian Houston | Bob Postlethwaite | |||
| Middlesbrough | Rodney Cove-Smith | Andrew Paterson | |||
| Newcastle RVI | 1957 | David Kerr | Walter Elliott | ||
| Newcastle Freeman | Bob Wilkinson | RVI amalgamated with Freeman | |||
| Newcastle paeds | Malcolm Coulthard | At RVI | |||
| Newry Daisy Hill | John Harty | ||||
| Northampton | Robert Preston | Warren Pickering | |||
| Norwich | |||||
| Nottingham | 1970 | 1974 | Martin Knapp | Richard Burden | Transplants led by Roger Blamey (transplant & breast surgeon) |
| Nottingham paeds | Alan Watson | Jonathan Evans | |||
| Oxford | 1967 | Des Oliver | Chris Winearls | ||
| Pembury | never | Arnold Osman | – | Established 1947 | |
| Peterborough | Chandra Mistry | Frieder Kleeman | |||
| Plymouth Derriford | Hugh Leather | Richard McGonigle | |||
| Portsmouth Queen Alexandra | 1947 | 1972 | Michael Darmady | Adolf Polak | 1947 is Salisbury, q.v. |
| Preston | Bob Coward | Laurie Solomon | |||
| RAF Halton | 1957 | Ralph Jackson | David Rainford | ||
| Reading Royal Berks | Ramesh Naik | Lndsay Barker | |||
| Salford | Annie Holmes | Steve Waldek | |||
| Salisbury Wroughton | 1947 | Michael Darmady | |||
| Sheffield | Margaret Platts | Peter Moorhead | |||
| Southampton | Mary Rogerson | ||||
| Southampton (paeds) | Rodney Gilbert | ||||
| Southend | David Carmichael | Mike Almond | |||
| Stevenage – Lister | Roger Greenwood | Ken Farringtom | |||
| Stoke on Trent | Geoffrey Aber | Patrick Naish | |||
| Sunderland Royal | Tony Martin | Mary McHugh | |||
| Swansea – Morriston | Andrew Williams | ||||
| Treliske Royal Cornwall | John Barnes | Paul Johnston | |||
| Wolverhampton New Cross |
Maurice Jackson | Paul Rylance | |||
| Worcester | |||||
| Wrexham Maelor Hospital | Peter Drew | Peter Rutherford | |||
| York | David Worth | Colin Jones |
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.
UK Renal Unit pages from 2018 (opens in new tab)
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 above 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 March 19, 2025 by neilturn