NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group together with NHS South Devon and Torbay have published some guidance for AKI in Care Homes in their newsletter. You can read the article here.
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by Charlie Tomson, Consultant Nephrologist and Co-Chair of the Intervention workstream What am I doing leading the Intervention workstream of the Think Kidneys Acute Kidney Injury programme? Good question. It’s certainly not because I have special expertise or research experience in the finer points of AKI pathophysiology or management. What little original research I’ve done has been more focused on avoiding late referrals in CKD. However,…
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Karen Thomas, UKRR Programmes Manager Three years ago this week, I started my role with the UKRR to manage the AKI National Programme. Little did I know that three years on we would have achieved far greater success than I could ever have imagined. 2016 has been the year that all the hard work of the Think Kidneys team has come together and we have experienced…
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The UK Renal Registry and Think Kidneys are delighted to have won the NHS Publicity Campaign Award at the Health Business Awards for 2016, despite fearsome competition from the other shortlisted campaigns. Karen Thomas, Programmes Manager for the UK Renal Registry – “I was thrilled to accept the award in London today. The team has worked hard on the campaign. We have such an important…
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An announcement made yesterday by The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with British tech company DeepMind, will see the development of an ‘app’ called Streams to alert doctors to test results immediately when a patient is at risk of becoming seriously ill with AKI. Streams will also provide the clinician with all the information they need to take action. Richard Fluck, Chair of…
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