Adolescent and Young Adult Kidney Clinic

The Adolescent and Young Adult Kidney Clinic is a new peer support clinic designed for adolescents and young adults requiring kidney health care and services, set in a community environment.

This service is delivered by the Kidney Health Service with support from Transplant Australia and the Sony Foundation.

Our services

The Adolescent and Young Adult Kidney Clinic is an outpatient clinic for people aged in their late teens to mid-twenties with kidney disease.

It features:

• A kidney youth worker.
• The opportunity to meet other young people with kidney disease.
• A separate kidney youth waiting area.
• Youth Worker led activities
• An outpatient kidney clinic.

Our team includes a range of health professionals, including nephrologists (kidney specialist doctors), kidney nurses, pharmacists and visiting allied health.  The team has particular expertise in pre and post kidney transplant care.

Patient stories

The ABC News team recently spoke with some of the patients attending the clinic.  Read the online article to find out more about their experiences: Brisbane kidney disease clinic providing safe space for young people ‘at highest risk’

How to access this service

To access this service, your GP or medical practitioner will need to send a referral letter to the hospital.  Patients are allocated to the clinic based on their postcode, the availability of the service, the nature of the referred condition and its severity, and equity of access across the Hospital and Health Service.