Dr Michelle Willicombe: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Consultant nephrologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, transplant nephrology lead for the UK-wide programme
- Quoted on
- NHS waiting lists
- Press citations held
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The roll-out is really positive news for kidney transplant patients, which I hope will help address health inequalities, reduce waiting times and ultimately save lives. The clinical consequences of developing HLA antibodies can be devastating for patients and lead to a transplant failing. But we've seen in our pilot how blood matching can reduce the risk of these antibodies developing, where a blood transfusion cannot be avoided, and increase the chances of a successful transplant.”
Where Dr Michelle Willicombe has been quoted
- UK-wide roll out of groundbreaking blood programme to help kidney transplant patientsimperial.nhs.uk · 27 Aug 2026
Related media coverage
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