Kidney Thinking. The blog from Think Kidneys

A very satisfactory end to the week on Friday 26th August – Sky News took up on the theme of AKI with a patient, Andrew Quille, who recently suffered from AKI being shown on film with Chris Laing, his consultant. Richard Fluck was also interviewed so we have achieved a much higher profile for AKI after Sky picked up on the Patient Safety Alert from NHS Improvement,…

Little did we know when we chose Think Kidneys as the name for the programme just how much we would rely on it on so many levels to spread the word about our work. It’s simple, direct and in marketing speak, ‘it does what it says on the can’. It’s a good fit for all our NHS and social care colleagues and it’s the basis of…

Dr Miles D Witham, Clinical Reader in Ageing and Health, University of Dundee and Consultant Geriatrician, NHS Tayside It’s handover time in your local care home. “Mr Smith isn’t doing so well the last couple of days. He’s not joined the other residents in the dining area, and he’s taken to his bed. I couldn’t even wake him up this morning for his medications.” “Has he…

The acutely unwell patient with diabetes; thinking kidneys in primary and secondary care Last month, I was delighted to introduce the first ever session at the Diabetes UK conference on Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Diabetes, initiated by the British Kidney Patient Association. Following the launch of the first NICE AKI guidelines in 2013 (to which I was pleased to be able to contribute as a…

I’m Becky Bonfield and I’m the acute kidney injury clinical nurse specialist at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. I’m in a unique position because my role sits within the patient safety team. I work closely with the renal team, but sit outside of it, focusing on patients within the Trust with AKI. This is what my working day looks like. Every morning I receive the…