As happens in all medical specialties, professionals working in the field began to organise themselves into representative groups as soon as the speciality of nephrology began to emerge into both clinical and research activity.

New organisations continued to emerge as individual professional groups grew, but felt their professional voice and development needs were not ideally met in existing organisations.

This led to a plethora of organisations of varying size which sometimes made it less easy to articulate a coherent professional voice. Happily this changed in 2021 when after careful and open discussion many of  the existing groups coalesced into a single UK Kidney Association.

Here is the timeline of the appearance of  the many groups large and small which have emerged over the years, and usually persisted, representing different professional groups.

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John Feehally, first published April 2022

Last Updated on September 12, 2024 by neilturn