Is the answer “yes” to all the questions?

Patients value a more patient-centred approach and more time in their consultations. Time is a fixed resource. How can healthcare professionals spend more time in value-added consultations. Two further questions that raises is “how do we do things differently?” and “what do we stop doing?”. Identyfing the low or no value activities and interventions is one way of unlocking resource. The right...

Renal NSF update April 2010

The Renal NSF update for April 2010 is available...

Invest in engagement

The Picker Institute have launched a new web tool to help the NHS unlock some of the benefits of effective patient and public engagement in health called “invest in engagement”. Picker have analysed evidence from 280 high level research reviews relevant to patient and public engagement in health. These are organised into 6 domains that are based on priority areas for the NHS in England:improving...

Improving choice for kidney patients: home haemodialysis

The first of these NHS Kidney Care workshops kicked off in Manchester today. The focus was on Standard 1 of the Renal NSF“all children, young people and adults with chronic kidney disease are to have access to information that enables them, with their carers, to make informed decisions and encourages partnership in decision-making, with an agreed careplan that supports them in managing their...

Rare diseases

The Chief Medical Officer’s annual report on the state of the nation’s health and wellbeing always has some important nuggets, often allows a peak into future policy areas and over the years has focussed on a number of topics very relevant to kidney care including hospital acquired infections, health inequalities and transplantation.In his last report, Sir Liam Donaldson highlights the quality...

Acute Kidney Injury Delivery Board

The AKI Board met at the Department of Health in late March to consider how best to respond to “Adding Insult to Injury”, the NCEPOD report into AKI and how to ensure that lessons are learned and recommendations implemented. The group includes acute physicians, kidney care and intensive care network managers, intensivists, renal physicians and nurses, pharmacists, biochemists, radiologists and...