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Pam Pye
@pamcomms.bsky.social
#NHSComms professional, ex-journo, wife, mum and dog mum. Passionate about promoting organ & blood donation. Hopelessly devoted to Everton FC and St Helens RLFC. Consumer of rock music, peanut butter, crisps and real ale! All views my own
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We spoke to Paul, who has been a haemodialysis patient for more than two decades, on how he manages to travel with the support of his dialysis unit.

Click here to read his story and advice: www.kidneyresearchuk.org/2025/01/15/c...
February 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Little Amelia spent her first Christmas outside of hospital after receiving a lifesaving heart transplant.
Brave girl spends first Christmas at home after undergoing lifesaving operation
Amelia Bolter will be aged four on January 3 but had spent half her life in hospital awaiting a heart transplant surviving with the help of a mechanical heart
www.mirror.co.uk
December 27, 2024 at 12:03 PM
More than 7,900 people in the UK, including 280 children, face this Christmas waiting for a gift Santa can't bring - an organ transplant.
More than half the children transformed into dolls as part of an award-winning national organ donation campaign have now received a lifesaving transplant in time for Christmas
More than half of a group of children transformed into handmade dolls as part of an award-winning national organ donation campaign 'Waiting to Live' have now received a lifesaving transplant in time f...
www.organdonation.nhs.uk
December 16, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Adele Darlington needed 65 units of blood, plasma and platelets to save her life after giving birth to her new baby Jasmine.

Seasonal illnesses and bad weather impact on the number of people who donate blood during winter.

Please make an appointment to give if you can.
Mum who received 65 units of blood products before last Christmas supports blood appeal
A mum transfused with 65 units of blood products to save her life has met the NHS staff who urgently sent blood to the hospital.
orlo.uk
December 12, 2024 at 11:29 AM
This is not just any Christmas, this is Sainsbury's Christmas #partytime
December 5, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Wonderful event at UK Parliament yesterday organised by @kidneycareuk.bsky.social & @nhsbt.bsky.social

Celebrating organ donation + raising awareness of how important kidney health is + how devastating kidney disease/failure can be ⚡️

Plus lovely catch up with pal/new MP/Tx surgeon Zubir Ahmed 🤗
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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As the year starts to come to an end, it's vital we look back on work of our #BloodyAmazingKidneys

Did you know you can lose up to 90% kidney function without realising. Check your risk here: www.kidneycareuk.org/kidneyhealthchecker

#SpotifyWrapped #KidneysWrapped #2024
December 5, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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Who has got the best NHS Christmas tree? Hospital, ward, surgery, clinic - open to everyone. Feels like there should be a national competition… #NHSXmastrees
December 5, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Great day in Parliament today. Joint event between @nhsbt.bsky.social and @kidneycareuk.bsky.social Chatting with MPs, patients & stakeholders on the importance of #OrganDonation & signing the NHS Organ Donor Register. Almost 60,000 people alive today thanks to an #organtransplant
December 4, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Off to bed to get some much needed beauty sleep. On a train to that there London tomorrow to mingle with MPs in Parliament and get as many as.we can to support #organdonation and sign the NHS Organ Donor Register.
December 3, 2024 at 10:43 PM
The new series of Peaky Blinders looks rubbish!
December 3, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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I’ve made a starter pack of people who share a common interest in promoting donation in any/all of its forms - blood, organs, plasma or stem cells.

Please let me know if you’d like to be added (or taken off) 💗🩸🙌

go.bsky.app/SbakMBL
December 1, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Big thanks to BBC Asian Network for covering health inequalities and the perceived myths towards organ donation in South Asian communities.

Listen in tonight at 11pm as they talk about the need for more people from ethnic minorities join the NHS Organ Donor Register.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Asian Network - Asian Network News Presents, The Gift of Life
NHS says more South Asians organ donors needed, as transplants are on the up.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 5:43 PM
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!!

Let's see what this Bluesky malarkey is all about!
December 2, 2024 at 5:23 PM