A kidney transplant is the best option for patients who have kidney disease. It involves an operation to replace your damaged kidney with a new kidney from either a living or deceased donor.

A kidney transplant will not cure the underlying cause of your kidney disease.

Here at SaTH we are here to help and advise you on whether you are suitable for a kidney transplant and guide you through this process. We provide education on the transplant referral process and help co-ordinate you being referred to a transplant centre.

We run a clinic on Tuesdays at Hollinswood House Telford and on a Thursday and Friday at the Hummingbird Centre, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

We do not perform transplants here – kidney transplants are done at our nearest transplant centre at University Hospital Birmingham.  We also have links with Coventry Transplant Centre.

If you are being assessed for a Combined Kidney and Pancreas Transplant we are linked to  Cardiff Transplant Centre and Manchester Transplant Centre.

The Renal Transplant Specialist Nurses can be contacted by email and telephone:

• sath.renaltransplantnurses@nhs.net
• 01743 261039 (answerphone available)

We aim to reply to you within 48 hours.

Please find below links to recommended websites on Kidney Transplant

• https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk
• https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/organ-transplantation/kidney/

Interested in being a Live Kidney Donor?

Contact us by email or phone for more information or follow the links to useful information:

• Living Kidney donation
• Gift of living donation