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Children’s Liver Disease Foundation gives thousands of young people and their families one strong voice to effect change in the diagnosis and treatment of childhood liver disease.

Add your voice to ours and make change happen for young people with liver disease.

Yellow Alert

Our Yellow Alert prolonged jaundice campaign promotes the early diagnosis and appropriate referral of liver disease in newly born infants. Aimed at healthcare professionals and new parents or parents-to-be, Yellow Alert highlights the signs and symptoms to look for.


Nice Guidelines on treatment of neonatal jaundice 

In 2010 the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published new guidelines on how the NHS should assess and treat cases of neonatal jaundice. We worked closely with NICE throughout, championing the cause of childhood liver disease. Information for parents, which supports the guidelines also links to CLDF’s Yellow Alert campaign.

You can view the guidelines at http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG98

Organ donation

More than 10,000 people in the UK currently need a transplant, yet only 28% of us have joined the Organ Donor Register.

If you haven’t already signed up to the organ donor register, please visit NHS Organ Donor Register and discuss your wishes with your family. Please spread to word to your friends and colleagues, too.

Transplant 2013

CLDF is a member of Transplant 2013. Its mission is to promote leadership of organ donation and transplantation in Parliament and other relevant institutions and facilitate communication and consensus within the transplant community in order to support the implementation of the Organ Donation Taskforce’s recommendations, ensure that the target to increase organ donation after death by 50% in 2013 is met, and significantly increase the number of organ transplants

In December 2011, CLDF’s CEO, Catherine Arkley and three parents attended a Transplant 2013 parliamentary meeting which aimed to inform MPs of the need to increase organ donation and highlight the successes of transplantation. Click here to read the story.

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