Where no Kidney Patient Association records working
This is a map, not medical advice, and nobody here can advise you. Your GP or your kidney unit is the place to start. The National Kidney Federation runs a helpline for kidney patients, and the association that supports your kidney unit can help too — find it under Find an association.
In 76 of the 152 counties and unitary authorities of England, neither record shows a Kidney Patient Association. 678,515 adults with chronic kidney disease have their GP practice in them. One more has no complete count of adults with chronic kidney disease at all, because Fingertips publishes no count for it, for data quality; it is listed last, and in no total. Before either sentence is quoted anywhere, read the next one.
It does not mean kidney patients there get no support. Hospital kidney units care for their own patients, national kidney charities and helplines serve everyone, and an association that belongs to a kidney unit supports patients from well beyond the council areas it records. What it means is narrow: no association on the NKF’s page that could be matched to the Charity Commission register records the area as one it works in.
How presence was counted
- An address — a Kidney Patient Association on the NKF’s Kidney Patient Associations page gives one in the area: 0 areas.
- The register — an association charity tells the Charity Commission it operates there: 76 areas.
Either one counts. A charity that records a whole region or country is not counted as present in any one area of it, because a charity that says it works everywhere says nothing about a particular place.
Recorded as working everywhere
Two of the network’s charities tell the register only that they work throughout a region or nation, so the register places them nowhere and they count only where they give an address. Where one of them really covers an area, this page cannot see it:
- Royal Free Hospital Kidney Patients Association — recorded as “Throughout London”
- St George's Kidney Patients Association — recorded as “Throughout London”
Every area where neither record shows a Kidney Patient Association
Largest number of adults with chronic kidney disease first.
| Area | Adults with chronic kidney disease | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Cumbria | 24,809 | Named by “Lancashire and South Cumbria KPA” |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 23,088 | |
| Croydon | 15,121 | |
| Bromley | 15,012 | |
| Medway | 14,834 | |
| Wigan | 14,683 | |
| Newham | 14,339 | |
| Brent | 13,843 | |
| Derby | 13,737 | Named by “Royal Derby Kidney Patients Association” |
| Bolton | 13,588 | |
| Leicester | 13,469 | |
| Barnet | 13,353 | |
| Sunderland | 13,054 | |
| Waltham Forest | 12,532 | |
| South Gloucestershire | 12,177 | |
| North Somerset | 11,820 | |
| Havering | 10,977 | |
| Lambeth | 10,797 | |
| Gateshead | 10,795 | |
| Enfield | 10,582 | |
| Trafford | 10,511 | |
| Redbridge | 10,448 | |
| Ealing | 10,367 | |
| Oldham | 10,360 | |
| Rochdale | 10,121 | |
| Plymouth | 10,007 | |
| Stockport | 9,641 | |
| Harrow | 9,485 | |
| Telford and Wrekin | 9,431 | |
| Wandsworth | 9,336 | |
| Brighton and Hove | 9,123 | |
| Hillingdon | 8,813 | |
| Tower Hamlets | 8,792 | |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 8,750 | |
| Blackpool | 8,710 | |
| Salford | 8,685 | |
| Torbay | 8,527 | |
| Bexley | 8,396 | |
| Lewisham | 8,333 | |
| Greenwich | 8,231 | |
| York | 8,174 | |
| Bury | 8,138 | |
| South Tyneside | 7,927 | |
| Swindon | 7,912 | |
| Haringey | 7,899 | |
| Hounslow | 7,646 | |
| Milton Keynes | 7,502 | |
| Tameside | 7,430 | |
| Sutton | 7,282 | |
| Southampton | 7,253 | |
| Hackney | 7,236 | |
| Barking and Dagenham | 7,007 | |
| Southend-on-Sea | 6,780 | |
| Thurrock | 6,652 | |
| Peterborough | 6,632 | |
| West Berkshire | 6,510 | |
| Luton | 6,399 | |
| Warrington | 6,387 | |
| Richmond upon Thames | 6,356 | |
| Kingston upon Thames | 6,294 | |
| Portsmouth | 6,271 | |
| Merton | 6,209 | |
| Camden | 5,694 | |
| Wokingham | 5,494 | |
| Islington | 4,761 | |
| Westminster | 4,760 | |
| Halton | 4,633 | |
| Slough | 4,606 | |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 4,575 | |
| Darlington | 4,535 | |
| Bracknell Forest | 4,313 | |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 4,033 | |
| Hartlepool | 3,884 | |
| Rutland | 2,400 | |
| City of London | 254 | |
| Isles of Scilly | no complete count | No count published, for data quality |
Wales
The NKF’s page also lists associations in Wales, Scotland and the Isle of Man. The GP registers here are England’s, so none of them is in this map.
What else to know
- The count of adults with chronic kidney disease comes from OHID Fingertips, indicator 258: CKD: QOF prevalence (18+), 2024/25 - adults on GP practices' chronic kidney disease registers (stages 3 to 5). It is summed over each area’s own GP practices, for England only.
- The register is the only record here. The NKF’s page gives no addresses, so no association is placed by address. An association that works in an area without telling the Charity Commission so does not show, and nor does one the register could not be matched to with certainty.
- Associations are often based at a hospital kidney unit, in the NKF’s words, and a unit’s patients travel to it from several council areas. This map is by council area; which unit each association serves is not measured here.