What this is built from
Public information. Every figure carries the source it came from.
The sources
| Source | What it supplies |
|---|---|
| The National Kidney Federation’s Kidney Patient Associations page | Which associations there are, and their websites. |
| Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Fingertips: CKD, QOF prevalence (18+) | Adults on GP practices’ chronic kidney disease registers, every county and unitary authority of England, 2024/25, from the NHS Quality and Outcomes Framework, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Charity Commission for England and Wales | What each charity is for, who for and how, where it says it operates, and its latest income, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Companies House | Legal form and company type, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | The English indices of deprivation 2025, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Office for National Statistics | Which area a postcode is in, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
What the register cannot say
38 of the 53 Kidney Patient Associations belong to a charity on the register for England and Wales. Some others are on it twice, under an older and a newer registration with the same name, website and postcode; neither number is shown as theirs, and each is counted once, where either record says it works. The rest are in Scotland or the Isle of Man, or are not on the register for England and Wales under a name the NKF gives them, and are left unmatched rather than guessed at.
What this will not do
- It does not contact anybody. Nothing here has been sent to any of the Kidney Patient Associations.
- No telephone numbers, no personal email addresses and no full postcodes. Each one’s own website is here, because a website is a route to an organisation.
- Nothing is scored and nobody is ranked. There is no good and bad one on this site, and no figure here is divided by any one charity’s income or the people it works with.
- No claim wider than what was counted. “No association records working here” is a fact about a record. “Kidney patients here have no support” is a claim about the world, and nothing here is in a position to make it.
How current this is
Nothing here is typed in or kept up by hand. Every page is produced from the sources above, and carries the date it was made. The count of adults is from the NHS Quality and Outcomes Framework for 2024/25, the latest there is; the NKF’s page was read the day this was made.