Renal & Transplant
The Richard Bright Renal Unit at
Southmead Hospital is the largest of its kind in the South West of
England.
It carries out more than 100 kidney transplants every year and
has led the way with laparoscopic kidney transplants (keyhole
surgery), spousal donation and non-heart beating donor transplants.
The unit is also pioneering techniques to enable highly sensitised
patients and recipients and donors with incompatible blood groups
to have a live kidney transplant.
Southmead has been at the forefront of the living kidney
transplant programme for many years and has some of the best
success rates in the country. We are also the UK’s largest
referring unit for the pancreatic transplants – one of only six
hospitals in England to provide islet transplantation.
More than 430 patients receive dialysis at Southmead or one of
our satellite units in Bath, Weston-super-Mare, Southmead, South
Bristol, Taunton and Frome. A new unit is due to open soon at the
redeveloped Cossham Hospital in Kingswood.
We are also leading the way in home dialysis treatment, offering
patients the option of dialysing at home with a dedicated team of
staff to support them.
Our paediatric transition service helps young people make the
often difficult move from treatment at children’s facilities to the
adult facilities at Southmead.
The service has a superb national and international reputation
and is the only hospital outside of London to have had two
consecutive presidents of the Renal Association working with us. We
have a dedicated team of nurses, doctors and transplant
co-ordinators to ensure all patients have the best experience we
can offer.
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