Tackling health inequalities.
Addressing kidney health inequalities in the UK is a priority for our organisation following the publication of our report Kidney Health Inequalities in the UK: an agenda for change in March 2019.
Influencing at a community level
We established a health inequalities advisory group made up of internal and external experts. Their recommendations will help inform our activities and add to our influence, so we can make sure we use our voice to benefit those affected.
We are helping NHS Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust to use our peer educator model to engage with ethnic minority communities on organ donation.
The research community shares our appetite for improvement. We received several applications for research projects addressing health inequalities, and we were able to fund seven of them. Our peer educators – staff and volunteers from the same cultural background as the communities we want to reach – continue to be successful. This community engagement on topics around kidney health and organ donation is thriving, particularly in Scotland. 14 c Kidney Research UK – annual report and financial statements 2019-20
We hosted the first ever Imam’s conference in Scotland working with the Scottish Government discussing issues around organ donation in Islam. 35 Imams attended the Glasgow event, hearing leading Muslim scholar Mufti Zabair Butt speak on his research around the issues and the fatwa he wrote.
