Are you keeping your AKI light under a bushel? Have you got a case study we can highlight? Think Kidneys has a number of case studies on the website which detail changes and improvements teams have made to the delivery of care and services for managing AKI. The case studies describe how renal units and Trusts have responded in many different ways to improve their services,…
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Think Kidneys is pleased to share a new resource for primary care – a detailed slide set created for educational purposes. The tailored presentation has been created for primary care teams and uses information and knowledge from the Think Kidneys primary care guidance, bringing it all together in one place. The slides have been developed to facilitate use by trainers and learners with differing experiences and…
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For the last 18 months Think Kidneys has been working to develop practical resources to raise awareness and help with the prevention, detection and management of AKI in care homes and today we launch this work on the website. The work was done by a cross-professional group comprising health care assistants, nurses, dieticians, care home managers, commissioners, hydration specialists and academics. We know that around 65%…
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The Think Kidneys AKI team is pleased to support the AKI Frontiers conference this year being held on Friday 31 March at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. On the day Richard Fluck, Chair of the Think Kidneys AKI programme will review and provide an evaluation of the national programme to improve care for people at risk of, or with AKI, which formally concludes at…
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The 2016 Research Paper of the Year published by the RCGP is entitled – “Self management of chronic kidney disease”. The paper signposts readers to the Think Kidneys resources on the website, in respect to managing patients with CKD who are known to be at increased risk of complications during episodes of acute illness. The resources referred to on the website at www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk are primarily for…
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