Voting is now open for the UKKA Clinical Vice President (Medical) election.
This important leadership role represents the medical voice within the Association and contributes to the UKKA’s strategic direction. The Clinical Vice President (Medical) sits on the UKKA Trustee Board and works closely with professional groups, committees and national partners to support clinical leadership and collaboration across the kidney community.
All active UKKA members are eligible to vote, regardless of their profession or membership group. This includes nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals and other members of the multiprofessional team, as well as doctors.
Eligible members should have received a voting email at their registered membership email address. Voting closes at 23:55 on Sunday, 27 September 2026.
The UKKA uses secure election software to administer its elections. Voting links will only be sent to active members. Any queries should be directed to the UKKA membership team.
About the candidates
Gavin Dreyer
Consultant Nephrologist and Physician, Whipps Cross Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust
Gavin is a nephrologist and acute physician working in a district general hospital in East London. His priorities include improving access to prompt, sustainable and equitable evidence-based kidney care, and ensuring that improvements reach the patients and communities who need them.
He has co-led two national reports on inequalities in kidney health, including Kidney Research UK’s Time to Act, and is working with the Royal College of Psychiatrists to strengthen understanding of the relationship between mental and physical health in kidney disease.
Gavin also Co-Chairs the UKKA Chronic Kidney Disease Special Interest Group. As Clinical Vice President, he would seek to improve coordination between the UKKA’s Special Interest Groups and its Clinical and Academic Committees, strengthen patient participation in clinical work and develop relationships with other specialties and organisations. He is committed to a four-nations approach through which the kidney community can learn and deliver improvements together.
Jonathan Murray
Consultant Nephrologist, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Jonathan has worked as a renal consultant in Middlesbrough for more than 14 years. His priorities include supporting safe, high-quality kidney care, empowering multiprofessional teams and turning collaboration between patients and professionals into practical improvements.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-led the development of NICE-accredited UKKA guidance in response to national dialysis resource shortages. He subsequently helped establish and now Co-Chairs the UKKA Acute Kidney Injury Special Interest Group, which brings together more than 80 multiprofessional members. He also organised the UKKA AKI Summit with seven partner organisations, leading to 24 jointly endorsed consensus recommendations.
Jonathan has represented the UKKA in work to influence guidance, policy and clinical practice, including the standardisation of acute kidney injury reporting by UK laboratories and responses to international KDIGO guideline updates. His wider contributions include the UKKA Patient Council, the UK Renal MedTech Network, the UKKA Leadership and Change Programme and the 7 Million Lives at Risk campaign. As Clinical Vice President, he would use this experience to help deliver the UKKA’s strategic priorities and strengthen its impact across patients, professionals and kidney services.