This assessment clinic helps to prepare the potential renal transplant donor and transplant recipient for surgery. It includes an assessment of the medical, surgical and psychological aspects of transplantation.
The clinic incorporates a monthly transplant information evening where patients meet doctors and nurses involved in the preparation for transplantation, as well as people who have already been through the process.
The South West Thames Renal and Transplant Unit has consistently one of the best one and five-year outcomes in the UK, for both renal and patient survival.
It has a policy of early mobilisation and discharge and, on average, recipients of transplants spend less than half the time in hospital than any other unit in London.
It has high living donor transplant rates, a policy of laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery for donors, and is developing transplantation across blood group and antibody barriers.
Referrals
Please contact Dr Peter Andrews, clinical lead for transplantation, on Tel 020 8296 3693.
