The Renal Department looks after patients in the region with kidney disorders and other related conditions. Whether you have been referred to our service recently, have chronic kidney disease (CKD), kidney failure requiring dialysis therapy or a kidney transplant, our specialist team are dedicated to supporting patients at every stage of your journey and provide excellent care.

This website provides all the information you need before visiting our department and what you can expect from living with kidney disease. We also have linked resources to useful advice, patient support groups and charities.

Our unit consists of an outpatient renal department at Sunderland Royal as well as an inpatient ward (B28). We have 3 dialysis units across Sunderland, Durham and South Tyneside.

There is an on-call consultant available for urgent renal advice via the STSFT switchboard.

Home therapies

In-Centre Haemodialysis

Inpatient care

Kidney Transplant

Living with kidney disease

Our Clinics

Patient experience and information

Sunderland Department of Interventional Nephrology

Video library

Renal Administration

The Renal unit has a team of administration staff who can help with non-medical enquiries.

Dialysis Administrators

Available Monday to Friday 08:30 to 16:30 or can be contact by telephone on 0191 5656256 ext. 47438 for the following:

  • Dialysis away from base - Help and advice for dialysis patients who would like to take a holiday in the UK or Abroad.
  • Grant application forms for Kidney Care UK to apply for funding towards holidays, domestic goods or hardship grants. www.kidneycareuk.org/get-support/financial-support
  • Free car parking permit for dialysis patients on site, form available here
  • Travel Expenses, patients who use their own transport may also be eligible to claim travel expenses.
  • Home dialysis patients Electricity reimbursement costs.
  • Donations to Renal Unit Fund
  • PatientsKnowBest (PKB) - Online access to test results available for Renal Patients to sign up and view their results from home. Please ask one of the dialysis adminstrators to sign you up and give you access. More about the site can be found here

Renal Reception Staff

Available Monday to Friday 08:30 to 16:30 or Telephone 0191 5656256 ext. 47309 for the following:

  • Appointment enquiries, to cancel/change an appointment held in the Renal Unit, contact above.
  • Changes to address, telephone number, GP or next of kin, please notify above to enable us to update our records.

Renal Secrataries

Available Monday to Friday 08:00 to 17:00 however individual secretaires working hours vary and won't all be available within these hours.

  • Rachel DeCruz - 47296 (Dr Davison, Dr Clark, Dr Andrews and Dr Ryan)
  • Laura Devonald - 47226 (Dr Fenwick, Dr McCloskey, Dr Hinchliffe and Dr Willows)
  • Christine Hobson - 41250 (Dr Palfrey, Dr Duffy and Dr Rudman)
  • Victoria Pattinson - 41466 (Dr Ahmed, Dr Srivastava and Dr Whitehead)
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