SEE YOU ON 12 JANUARY 2008

To mark the work of the CAMPAIGN a rally is taking place in Swansea chaired by Allison John.

Please register by e mailing Allison on allison@kidneywales.com

A number of speakers will attend and the results of the Campaigning discussed to take matters forward.


Venue is Village Hotel Swansea.Start is 9 30am for coffee.

IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING ALLISON MEETS THE ALL BLACKS

PEOPLE LIKE US

ALLISON CAMPAIGNING WITH

THE ALL BLACKS IN CARDIFF ON 3 OCTOBER 2007

WE WANT TO ADOPT

" IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING" NOW.

Allison pictured with Nick Evans and Doug Howlett

New Cross Party Group of Assembly Members Meet

Wales Cross Party Kidney Group

The Assembly Wales Cross Party Assembly Group met last night to consider the Campaign.

Present were

Dr Dai Lloyd AM (PC, South Wales West) – Acting Chair
Jenny Randerson AM (LD, Cardiff Central)
Nerys Evans AM (PC, Mid & West Wales)
David Melding AM (Con, South Wales Central)
Allison John, Kidney Wales People Like Us Campaign Ambassador
Roy J. Thomas, Executive Chairman, Kidney Wales
Prof John Salaman (representing WKPA)
Dr Richard Moore
Daran Hill

The Meeting discussed the PLUS Campaign and will meet again at the end of October.

Wales Lags 4 years Behind England on Kidney Treatment (Jenny Randerson AM)

Wales Lags 4 years Behind England on Kidney Treatment (Jenny Randerson AM)

At the start of Kidney Wales Foundation's four month campaign to improve Kidney services in Wales Jenny Randerson AM , Welsh Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson has stated her full support for their work. She said:
"The Renal National Service Framework critically lacks an action plan and a measurable timetable for action. A 2006 study undertaken by researchers from Bristol and Cardiff showed that 20% of the population lived more than 30 minutes from a dialysis unit and in large parts of Powys and Pembrokeshire the drive time is over 60 minutes. The Kidney Foundation have suggested that Wales is around four years behind.
"There are serious concerns about poor accountability for dialysis units and the number of kidney transplants remains totally inadequate. I fully support campaigns by both the BMA and Kidney Foundation Wales to increase the number of donors.
"This really is a life or death issue."
The Kidney Wales Foundation have presented a petition which requests that the National Assembly for Wales works with Kidney Wales Foundation and other stakeholders to set and achieve a target of doubling kidney donors in Wales by the end of this National Assembly in 2011. The petition also requests that the Assembly matches pound for pound the funding provided by Kidney Foundation Wales towards their campaign

WESTERN MAIL Calls for action on kidney facilities

icWales - Calls for action on kidney facilities click for full story

WESTERN MAIL - 20 SEPTEMBER 2007

Calls for action on kidney facilities
Sep 20 2007
by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail

PATIENTS are having to travel hundreds of miles a week to have life-saving treatment in shabby dialysis units.
In one major hospital patients with kidney failure are having dialysis – which can take up to three hours or more – in a portable cabin with just one radiator.
In another Welsh hospital an old storeroom is used as a makeshift “dialysis station” for two people – patients said the facilities are “unsafe and claustrophobic”.
The Kidney Wales Foundation today exposes the “third world” conditions patients are being treated in as evidence of the crisis in renal care. The charity, backed by the Welsh Kidney Patients Association, is launching a major campaign to improve treatment for the hundreds of patients with kidney failure.

ALLISON JOHN SHARES THE PLus CAMPAIGN WITH WELSH RUGBY STARS AS THEY PREPARE TO START THIER OWN WORLD CUP CAMPAIGN

Allison John sharing the Campaign with Welsh Rugby Players before the start of World Cup Campaign. Allison centre with from left to right Gethin Jenkins , Captain Gareth Thomas, Martin Williams and Jonathan Thomas.

The People Like Us Campaign will coincide with the Rugby World Cup. Allison decided to share her own campaign with the Welsh Team. Allison's partner Nathan is a New Zealander and same goes for Campaigner Andrea Evans whose boyfriend is also from NZ.

Photograph courtesy Stephan Lewis Photography. Many thanks to Moss Bross for allowing Allison to meet the Rugby Stars.

"I was delighted to meet some of the players before they flew to France to start the World Cup. I'm very proud and patriotic about Wales and have followed Welsh rugby since I was a little girl. My brother Barry is even named after Barry John the Welsh rugby player of the seventies. As a family we are avid supporters. My boyfriend Nathan, from New Zealand is a huge rugby fan and is obviously looking forward to the World Cup with the All Blacks being tipped to win!! "

Allison

KW News

KW News - Support Kidney Wales Petition - Kidney Wales Foundation

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What was the Petition about in the National Assembly for Wales ?



Allison John presented the Presiding Officer Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas AM and the new Petitions Committee Chair Val Lloyd AM with a Petition to the National Assembly of Wales to increase the funding for more people in Wales to register on the Organ Donor Register.

Present were Mike German AM and Andrew RT Davies AM who are on the Petitions Committee and John Reever of the Welsh Kidney Patients Association and Trustees of Kidney Wales.

Lord Dafydd Elis Thomas said “I am delighted to accept this petition from Kidney Wales . It’s very pleasing that we are receiving Petitions under our new system and the Petitions Committee has been set up to look at petitions and decide how to proceed with them. For the first time, members of the public and organisations/charities such as Kidney Wales will not only be able to petition the National Assembly and ask for action to be taken in those areas of policy for which the Assembly is responsible, but the Assembly will be required to act on the petition, if it is within the powers of the Assembly. We are also carrying out an open consultation to invite people to give their ideas about how we can make this new system work best. We want it to be open, responsive, efficient and effective, and I urge people to look at our website and respond to the consultation.”

The Petition will now proceed and get the attention of the Health Committe