Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of kidney disease.

A Renal Specialised Commissioning Intelligence Dataset is being produced which will focus on indicators along the pathway for renal disease, including lifestyle and clinical risk factors, such as the better control of high blood pressure.

The Be Clear on Cancer ‘Blood in Pee’ campaign focusses on a symptom common to bladder and kidney cancers and also to kidney disease, which may help increase rates of diagnosis.