What we spent your money on last year.

What is Dialysis?

Dialysis treatment is needed by children whose kidneys stop working properly. Our patients receive treatment in the unit three times a week, some travelling from a considerable distance.

Dialysis machines effectively take over the function of the kidneys when they are unable to work properly by removing waste products from the blood and excess water from the body. Each treatment takes approximately four hours.

Other projects supported with funding from the Friends Membership Scheme include:

• Free parent accommodation in the Italian Building for two years
   
• Contributed £100,000 to The Tinker Bell Play Centre
  
  
• An Electron Microscope for the Histopathology Department
  
  
• Key-hole surgery equipment
  
  
• A Single Cell Manipulation System used by researchers to investigate the development of cancer