NHSBT launches funding to increase support for living kidney donation
Melanie May | 20 August 2021 | News
NHS Blood and Transplants has launched new Community Investment Scheme funding for living kidney transplants.
The launch coincides with the release of the Black and Asian Transplant Activity Report, which shows the impact of Covid-19 on organ donation and transplantation amongst Black, Asian and Mixed Race and minority ethnic patients, and in particular the effects of a reduction in living donation.
To help tackle these inequalities, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is offering a further £100,000 of funding via its Community Investment Scheme programme.
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Over the last three years the scheme has funded community and faith/belief organisations to engage Black, Asian, Mixed Race and minority ethnic communities in organ donation and more recently blood donation.
This year, it is expanding the scheme to promote living donation across the UK. It will fund community and faith/ belief organisations to positively engage Black, Asian, Mixed Race and minority ethnic communities in living kidney donation.
NHSBT is looking for organisations to apply that are focused on moving towards greater health equity for all and addressing health literacy and other capability barriers across the general population. Projects chosen for funding will drive awareness of living donation, address misinformation and barriers, share information, and drive behaviour change to increase support for living donation.
Organisations have until 10pm on 12 September to apply.
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Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.