UK Kidney History
History of nephrology in the UK and beyond
Timeline
1800s
Before Bright
Akbar Mohamed & measuring blood pressure
Richard Bright
Richard Bright’s papers
Following Bright
1900-1940
1940s: Discovering AKI
1950s: Acute Dialysis
1960s: long-term haemodialysis
National planning for RRT commences
1964: home haemodialysis
1960s: Transplantation
1970s on: Transplantation
British discoveries in transplant immunology
Clinical transplantation
1980s on: Long-term Peritoneal Dialysis
1980s on: meeting demand
UK Renal Units: the spectrum of intra-specialty conflicts in the late twentieth century
Greater Manchester Renal Managed Clinical Network
Models for leadership of transplant programmes
UK nephrology – academic or clinical development?
Tactics and Strategy: local and national initiatives in UK nephrology prior to 1990
1980s onwards: Improving care
UK nephrology in the 1990s & 2000s
Themes
Campaigning and politics
Nephrology Renal or Kidney?
Words for kidney
Service or academic?
Machines and technicians
The dialyser evaluation programme at Newcastle upon Tyne
Eric Collins Looks Back
Renal Technical Support in the UK & the Role of ART
Dialysis technology in the UK 1960-2005
Paediatric nephrology
Patient Groups
Professional Groups
Renal Association
The Development & Arrival of the UK Kidney Association
British Transplantation Society
British Association for Paediatric Nephrology
Renal Nutrition Group
British Renal Society
British Renal Society
District General Hospital Nephrologists
British Renal Computing Group
Nephrology Specialist Registrar Club
Association of Renal Technologists
Remarkable people
Remarkable professionals
Mike Gordon – obituary
UK Contributions to KI Nephrology Forum
Norman Jones
Frank Parsons
A Faustian bargain in 1950s Renal Medicine
Chris Rudge
Chris Rudge – personal reflection
Ram Gokal
Ram Gokal personal career account
Christopher Blagg
Eric Bywaters
Roy Calne
Stewart Cameron 1934-2023
Stewart Cameron Bibliography
Stewart Cameron: towards an intellectual history
Stewart Cameron interview 2017
Stewart Cameron – funeral tribute
Stewart Cameron – obituary
Stewart Cameron day 19 April 2024
Stanley Shaldon
Sally Taber
David Kerr – a recollection by Ram Gokal
David Kerr
Donal O’Donoghue
Jo Adu
Cyril Chantler
Netar Mallick
Anne Eady
Anne Lambie
Anne Lambie interview 2020
David Kerr – a reminiscence by Chris Winearls
Netar Mallick interview
Hugh de Wardener
Rosemarie Baillod
Douglas Black
Robert Heptinstall
Remarkable patients and carers
Robin Eady
Andrew Demaine
Elizabeth Ward
Peter Davis interview
Olga Heppell
Renal IT and the Registry
The Origins of the Renal Registry
Renal PatientView
RaDaR history
CCL and Proton timeline
Renal pathology
Renal Pathology in the UK
Great British Research
Anti-GBM disease
Reflux Nephropathy in Children
Cardiac effects of haemodialysis
Complement in Nephritis
Complement & Atypical HUS
Dent’s Disease & Renal Tubular Acidosis
Erythropoeitin & renal anaemia
Oxygen sensing
Renal Anaemia – the UK contribution
Decision Support in renal anaemia 1998-2019
GFR measurement
Glomerular diseases
Membranous nephropathy
Membranous pathogenesis – Manchester
Icodextrin in peritoneal dialysis
Polycystic Kidney Disease
Renal bone disease
Vasculitis
UK Renal Research History
Kidney Research UK
Kids Kidney Research
Challenges
Aluminium toxicity
Coronavirus
‘EXCEPTIONAL TIMES’ The Coronavirus Pandemic 2020
Diversity & Discrimination
Culture Ethnicity Race – Ram Gokal
My background, and my experiences in nephrology -Mumtaz Patel
Culture ethnicity race – Jo Adu
Extending professional roles
Hepatitis
HIV
The fight for service provision
The Sage affair – two broken men
Resources
Stewart Cameron archive
Units
Belfast
Birmingham
Bristol
Cardiff
Carshalton (St Helier)
Dundee
Edinburgh
Exeter
Glasgow
Glasgow RI by MBJ
Leeds
Renal Services at St. James University Hospital, Leeds
Accommodating a Regional Renal Service from Leeds 1966-74
More on St James’s University Hospital Renal Unit, 1980-2007
Leicester
London – Barts
London – Charing Cross (Fulham)
London – Guys
London – Hammersmith
Hammersmith timeline and detail
Hammersmith: an early 70s SRs view
London – Kings
London – The London
London – Middlesex (Three Ps)
London – National Kidney Centre
London – Royal Free
London – St George’s
London – St Marys
London – Westminster
Manchester
Newcastle
Oxford
Early treatment of renal failure in Oxford – a technical viewpoint
Pembury
Portsmouth
RAF Halton
Salisbury
John Hopewell’s history
Renal Units: Pride in, and of, place?
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