This hub is created in partnership with Kidney Care UK, the leading kidney patient support charity, to raise awareness of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
Chronic Kidney Disease Hub
Access information and resources on chronic kidney disease - enhance your knowledge, raise awareness and support your community through service provision.
Working Together to Improve Kidney Health Outcomes
The National Pharmacy Association have partnered with the UK’s leading kidney patient support charity, Kidney Care UK, to raise awareness of CKD with those most at risk.
Unless urgent preventative action is taken to improve diagnosis and treatment rates, CKD is predicted to be the fifth leading cause of premature death globally by 2040.
Community pharmacists play a vital role in protecting kidney health. Your regular contact with patients living with diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, or using long-term medicines, means you are ideally placed to spot risk early.
Awareness & Impact Driven
Kidney disease often develops without symptoms. Through awareness campaigns, medicines optimisation, and signposting to screening and support, pharmacists can help improve early detection, reduce health inequalities, and support better long-term outcomes.
Community pharmacists are perfectly placed to raise awareness and guide patients to the right care.
Be part of the kidney health conversation.
Key facts
7 Million
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) currently affects 1 in 10 people (more than 7 million) in the UK
5th
CKD is predicted to be the fifth leading cause of premature death globally by 2040
1 million
The number of people living with CKD who are not aware they have the condition
