SAKA MEMBERS INFORMATION

SAKA UPDATE

SAKA members receive the quarterly newsletter "SAKA Update" direct to their homes - you can also download editions here in pdf format. All editions include the "Chairman's Column" along with interesting and informative items.

Contributions for "SAKA Update" are more than welcome. Humorous, serious topics, quizzes and anything that may be of interest to any other members can be sent to Ken Tupling using the details on the contacts page.

• October 2011
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • New SAKA chairman
  • SAKA Christmas cards for sale
  • Christmas quiz
  • Transplant games success, written by Stewart Graves

• July 2011
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • Recognition, Reflection and Remembrance Service
  • Visit to the Cutlers Hall
  • AGM notification
  • Update on Transport for Haemodialysis patients
  • Notification of NKF Roadshow
  • NHS Organ Donor Register hits 18 Million registrations

• April 2011
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • SAKA "big society"
  • Recipe for Spicy Barbeque Chicken
  • FREEDOM holidays
  • SAKA caravans
  • British Transplant Games
  • 2011 SAKA Membership renewal

• January 2011
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • SAKA caravans
  • Norovirus information
  • SAKA membership
  • British Transplant Games

• October 2010
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • "I'd rather be at home" - home dialysis
  • Thank you's!
  • Review of SAKA AGM
  • Christmas cards for sale

• July 2010
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • Who do you think we are?
  • Donate via the Everyclick website
  • SAKA AGM
  • Local dialysis unit raises money for SAKA
  • Sheffield Fayre
  • NKF 2010 Roadshow

• April 2010
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • Renal PatientView
  • Announcement of raffle prizes and winners
  • Dr Ong and inherited kidney disorders
  • 2010 SAKA Membership renewal
  • Caravan booking details
  • Recipe for lamp chops
  • Hospital transport

• January 2010
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • Thank you's!
  • Nocturnal Dialysis
  • Caravan booking details
  • Ciclosporin
  • World Kidney Day Competition details
  • 2010 SAKA Membership renewal

• October 2009
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • The Transplant Games (including World Transplant Games)
  • Race Night (Feb 2010)

• July 2009
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • SAKA Fundraising
  • ABO (blood group) Incompatible Kidney Transplantation
  • New Renal Social Worker - Josephine Hall

• April 2009
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • New editors of SAKA Update
  • Holidaying on the East Coast
  • Dick Williams "In the Spotlight"

• August 2008
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • Presentation to Andrew Raftery to mark his retirement
  • New caravan in Skegness
  • Kidney Evaluation and Awareness Program for Sheffield (KEAPS)

• May 2008
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • Formation of the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Support Group
  • Dialysis Satellite Units (including the new Sheffield Unit)
  • Retirement of Andrew Raftery and Nora Bell
  • 2008 Sheffield British Transplant Games
  • Lynne White's Transplant and Stuart Carter's 60th Birthday
  • Information regarding the October 2008 NKF Conference

• January 2007
  Articles in this edition are...
  
  • Record Year for Transplants at the Northern General Hospital
  • State Benefits
  • Polycystic Kidney Disease - Searching for the Cure, by Dr Albert Ong (Reader in Nephrology, Northern General Hospital)
  • Holidays and Insurance
  • World Kidney Day 2007

RENAL UNIT TELEPHONE NUMBERS

Northern General Hospital...

• Sorby Unit Outpatients...
  • Appointments: 0114 271 5131
  • Room 1: 0114 271 5320

• Renal Unit...
  • 'E' Floor: 0114 271 5331
  • 'F' Floor: 0114 271 5136
  • 'G' Floor: 0114 226 9164
  • Vickers 2: 0114 226 6392
  • Vickers 3: 0114 226 6813

Satellite Units...

• Barnsley: 01226 320 310
• Chesterfield: 01246 512 626
• Doncaster: 01302 381 455
• Rotherham: 01709 838 333
  
  

MISCELLANEOUS

SAKA is always looking for people with skills that could be used for the benefit of the organisation and its members - if that is you, then please make yourself known to a member of the committee!