These are just some of the ways we help kidney patients and their families:
We provide a trained counselling and information service and a listening ear whenever necessary.
We send out up to six newsletters free of charge, every year.
We arrange occasional events for kidney patients and their families to meet socially and exchance ideas and information.
We hold an Annual General Meeting and social events for members every year.
We finance an Amenity Fund which provides for patients in need.
We give equipment to the hospital Renal Units - items which are not supplied as statutory provision, e.g. CAPD bag warmers, talking scales for blind patients, CCPD machines.
We supply items to improve the comfort of patients in hospital.
We campaign on behalf of kidney patients to improve facilities and increase public awareness of issues affecting kidney patients, particularly the need transplants.
We give lectures to interested groups, including hospital staff.
We work with the other organisations interested in renal disease and its treatment and we are a member of the National Kidney Federation.
We raise money to fund all these activities by selling merchandise, organising street collections etc.
The above information is part of a leaflet which the NWRKPA gives to those interested in knowing more about the work of the Patients' Association.