Living Transplant Initiative (LTI)
The aim of the LTI is to increase the number of living kidney transplants among BAME communities through a targeted approach.
NHSBT commissioned NBTA to manage the Living Transplant Initiative (LTI) in October 2016.
NBTA set up a LTI Steering Group to oversee this Initiative. The Steering Group decided to allocate funding to five projects from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018.
An interim report was produced giving an overview of the projects and their achievements in 2018.
Four projects were funded in 2018-2019. A further three smaller projects were funded from 1 September 2018 - 31 March 2019.
Read the final report here published in November 2019.
For any queries about this Initiative, please contact the Kirit Modi, Chair of the NBTA LTI Steering Group (nbta@racefound.org.uk) or contact the lead person for each project directly.
See also the project resources on the NHSBT website.
2017-19 LTI Projects
BAPS Charities
The aim of the LTI is to increase the number of living kidney transplants among BAME communities through a targeted approach.
Gift of Living Donation
This project focusing on home-based educational intervention is targeted at the African and Caribbean communities in North and North West London.
Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust and GOLD
Peer volunteer living donor home education programme to engage African and Caribbean patients and their families.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
The aim of our project is to increase awareness of live kidney donation in the Muslim Community in Yorkshire.
University Hospitals Birmingham
To maximise living donor kidney for South Asian and Black ethnicity through communication and peer education.
University of Warwick
This project is targeted mainly at the African and African Caribbean communities in South London boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham and Croydon.
Vanik Council
This project is targeted mainly at the Jain communities and led by NCVA, representing thirteen Jain organisations in North West London.