Featured image: A prototype automatic PD cycler made by Hawker-Siddeley in Coventry in 1965. This factory made Whitley bombers in the war, then became aeronautic and space engineers (Sea Slug missiles, etc), but had a little sideline in dialysis. Then became part of British Aerospace (then closed). This prototype was made around 1965 was given to Mr R E Shaw (urologist) at Keresley Hospital in 1968 and was the first dialysis machine to be used in Coventry. More on Machines on the Machines page. Rob Higgins; via robmcrorie on Flickr

Historic video and film

• UK Kidney History on Vimeo:  our own site, the UKKidneyHistory video collection includes some unique content, and some from others.
  
• Tomorrows World (1965) – The first ever Tomorrow’s World on BBC TV in 1965 included a piece about an exciting new treatment called haemodialysis. Outstanding.
  
• 1979 – Renal Failure – the challenge. UK government Information film on Treatment of Renal Failure (1970s)
• ISHD – Collection of historic films on early days of dialysis from the International Society for Haemodialysis. US-centric.

Renal Association/UK Kidney Association Archive

Contains

• Obituaries of past members
• History of Renal Association
• Fifty years of Haemodialysis in the UK (Stewart Cameron, Robin Eady, Nick Hoenich)

Paediatric Nephrology

• History of European Paediatric Nephrology (YouTube channel) – interviews with many pioneers

Audio and video interviews

On this site you can find links to interviews with many notable UK professionals, patients, and carers – see under Remarkable People.

Other audio and video interviews with famous figures in UK nephrology are included in international collections. These include some recorded by ISN, some by the Royal College of Physicians, and others.

The ISN Videolegacy project – has interviews with key figures internationally, initiated and curated by Dr Kim Solez. 

• Full YouTube playlist of classic interviews (182 videos listed, not all interviews)
• Second YouTube playlist (may overlap)
• Transcripts of many of the interviews (Cybernephrology at Univ Alberta)

Physical and virtual museums

• Science Museum, London
• Wellcome Collection, London
• Virtual museum of dialysis machines and equipment at Home Dialysis Central
• Leeds Thackray Medical Museum has the impressively massive Brigham-Kolff rotating drum kidney used at Leeds General Infirmary from 1956.
• Museum of Scotland does not have anything on regular display, but in store it has a Travenol-Kolff machine and some other dialysis equipment from the 1960s and later.
  

Last Updated on February 14, 2024 by neilturn