Scottish Donation and Transplant Group written update: March 2023

Living donation update

Update given by:

• Jen Lumsdaine, Living Donor Co-ordinator, NHS Lothian

Education and publicity

Bauer radio platform featured living kidney donation in January, on radio stations across Scotland. This, along with the campaign in December 2022 has resulted in wide multi-media coverage of selected living donation stories – including twenty-nine print and online stories in national and local newspapers; Twitter (24 posts) and Facebook 10 posts with a combined following of 312,000.

The Renal Education and Choices at Home (REACH) Transplant initiative was presented at The British Transplantation Society meeting in Edinburgh early March, with a poster presentation of the health-check questionnaire return data.

The information booklet for REACH Transplant produced locally during the pilot is currently being updated

REACH Transplant

All REACH Transplant nurses have been appointed in all NHS Boards with nine out of ten in post. The remaining nurse will be in post by end of March 2023. The induction programme is underway and evaluation tools developed.

Workforce planning

The consultant nephrology input is complete, and the transplant co-ordinator/specialist nurse information complete by the end of March 23.

Number of health-check questionnaire returns

Data collection for health-check questionnaire returns including all units (altruistic and direct) by month.

Kidney transplants Scotland 2016-2023