Transplant Games 2024
Running for over 40 years, The Westfield Health British Transplant Games are a celebration of life.
Taking place in different host cities every Summer, the games see teams from hospitals across the UK come together to compete in a medley of sports.
The 4-day event attracts around 1000 transplant athletes and more than 1700 supporters.
About the Games: The Games are organised on behalf of Transplant Sport whose aim is to raise awareness of the need for organ donation, encourage transplant recipients to lead active lifestyles and show appreciation for, and remember their donors and their families.
The 2024 games are being hosted in Nottingham and SEKPA are delighted to have funded some T-shirts for participants.
London Marathon 2024
Claire Allum-Antilles completed the run in 5 hours, 41 mins, 43 secs.
Her fundraising efforts raised over £1500 for SEKPA.
Fantastic, Claire
SEKPA AGM
Monday 8th April 2024
The AGM this year was held in the Seminar Room of the SKU and was followed by a talk on Kidney Care UK presented by Ellie Winch, our local representative.
The talk was very interesting and showed that Kidney Care UK provides many benefits to kidney patients and was one of the original supporters of the Transplant Games
Judy presenting flowers to Ellie Winch at the end of the meeting
SEKPA donates to Kidney Research UK
A Med Tech Dialysis Competition has been run by Kidney Research UK to find ways in which to make Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) and Haemodialysis (HD) more tolerable.
SEKPA very much supports these aims and has agreed to support one of the 3 winners of the competition. The selected project is to develop a wearable ultrasound sensor that provides continuous monitoring of blood flow in a fistula.
At present, the function of a fistula is only checked at routine visits to the hospital, typically every 6 months. The result is that any narrowing of a blood vessel (stenosis) is sometimes detected too late for a simple solution to be found. The development of a wearable ultrasound sensor will enable the fistula to be monitored while at home as well as when in the renal unit. This will be a benefit to both patients and staff.
The total cost of the project is £30,000. SEKPA is funding £15,000 of this, sharing the cost with Kidney Research UK.