Stanley Shaldon (1931-2013)

Shaldon started the first chronic haemodialysis in the UK in 1964 at the Royal Free Hospital, and pioneered home dialysis. An unorthodox figure and a difficult colleague, he left the NHS soon after to establish a private dialysis facility in London, and then moved to Europe spending most of his subsequent career in France. See also Olga Heppel’s recollections, and Rosemarie Baillod interview. 

Watch the first edition of BBC’s ‘Tomorrow’s World’ in 1965 which includes a report of some ethical issues in dialysis and an interview with Shaldon.

Shaldon was interviewed in 2010 by Kim Solez for the Videolegacy Project – European Pioneers in Nephrology (link)

Read Shaldon’s obituary (link)

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