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.
| Section | Task | Editor | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timeline | AKI: Working on it. | Neil | 2 |
| Publicity | ‘History corner’: Alan Salama has offered a slot in his monthly UKKA news. Neil working up John’s suggestions | Neil | 1 |
| Themes | History of UK Renal Pathology Terry Cook – no response. John’s draft with Ian Roberts – prompted Sept 2024 | John | 1 |
| Technical | Page stats – show Google page stat details to logged in editors – (done but will take time to populate page hits) | Neil | 10 |
| Technical | Tabulate and link authors to an Authors page. Think how to do this. | Neil | 3 |
| Resources | Catalogue for books in RCPE library and elsewhere | Neil | 3 |
| Timeline | 1800s: subpages created as stubs for Bright, his predecessors and his followers, Neil to begin to populate. | Neil | 1 |
| Themes | UK Research timeline: make a timeline 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. Nearly ready to post. | Chris, 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 | Anti-GBM disease: Neil has edited Chris’s piece. Under review Oct 2024 | Neil | 1 |
| Research | IgAN (Leicester): John F to write and show draft to Jon Barratt | John | 2 |
| Research | Birmingham GN/Vasculitis: Ask Lorraine Harper | Neil | 2 |
| Research | Vasculitis: Caroline Savage in touch (Oct 2024) | Neil | 2 |
| 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 | Chris | 2 |
| Research | aHUS: David Kavanagh, Anna Richards (will run it past Tim Goodship). Neil is chasing again Oct 2024. | Neil | 3 |
| Challenges | Diversity: Gokal piece & Adu comments on race & ethnicity posted. Might Joyce add her views? | Joyce | 2 |
| Challenges | Tuberous sclerosis – case study in funding new high cost therapy. Still promised by Chris Kingswood. | Joyce | 4 |
| Unit | Manchester from Platt to Mallick. Witness Seminar held in Oct 2024.Text will follow. | John | 4 |
| Unit | Pembury. First modern era unit, but pre-dialysis; will entail a bit more on Osman. Added, started. | Neil | 2 |
| (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 | 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 |
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Last Updated on January 1, 2025 by John Feehally