The organisations behind MyKidney.org

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is made up of two of London's most well known teaching hospitals. The hospitals have been at the forefront of medical innovation and progress since they were founded almost 900 years ago. Both hospitals have built on these traditions and continue to have a reputation for excellence and innovation.

The Trust provides ¾ million patient contacts in acute and specialist hospital services every year. As well as providing a full range of hospital services for our local communities in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, we also provide specialist services for patients from further afield, including cancer, cardiothoracic, kidney and children's services.

Kidney Services - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is a centre of excellence for the treatment of kidney disease. It treats local people living in South East London as well as taking referrals from throughout the UK. Services are provided throughout the entire patient pathway. This includes treatment of early kidney disease, advanced kidney care, dialysis, transplantation, and end of life care. Kidney units were first established at Guy´s and St Thomas´ Hospitals in the 1970s. Since then our clinicians have become leaders in the field of kidney care, most notably in living donor and deceased donor transplantation.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of London's largest and busiest teaching hospitals, with a unique profile of strong local services and a focused set of specialist services.

This includes providing specialist services to patients across a wide catchment, and we are recognised nationally and internationally for our work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, cardiac and haemato-oncology.

Kidney Service - King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The King's Kidney Service is well recognised for the quality of the care it provides and for its patient centred approach. The unit provides a wide range of kidney services. High dependency beds incorporated into our main kidney ward allow us to provide care to a large number of patients with acute kidney injury including those with more severe associated medical problems.

The unit has an international reputation for the treatment and research of renal anaemia and for research into chronic kidney injury. It also has developing interests in the overlap between kidney and liver disease and in kidney disease in patients affected by sickle cell disease and HIV.

Guy's and St Thomas' Charity
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity is one of the UK's largest and most innovative charities. The Charity's aim is to ensure patients get the very best care possible in the best environment by funding new services and approaches to healthcare at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Lambeth, NHS Southwark, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Other organisations can also apply for service innovation funding with sponsorship from one of the beneficiary trusts. The Charity also funds health related research which can be translated into patient care. It also provides a thriving visual and performance art programme to enhance the patient experience.

The Charity's work is made possible by donations from patients, their families, and members of the public. It undertakes fundraising campaigns to support major projects and specific areas of need, including the Evelina Children's Hospital and the planned Integrated Cancer Centre for London. For further information visit, www.gsttcharity.org.uk| or call 020 7188 7700

The MyKidney Project
MyKidney is an outcome of a three-year project to modernise kidney services in Lambeth and Southwark funded by Guy's and St Thomas' Charity which ended in 2008.

The partnership project involving the kidney services at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the local Primary Care Trusts for Lambeth and Southwark and crucially, patients who use these services and their carers. The Modernisation team examined the whole patient journey from diagnosis, through the various treatments available and included end of life care. Improvements were made to raise awareness of kidney disease and prevent its onset; help patients make informed choices about their treatment and provide the best possible care at every stage of the patient pathway.