Latest news

On Friday 26th August the Think Kidneys programme took to the airways with a 10-minute feature on acute kidney injury on Sky News. Sky News had picked up the story, particularly the annual number of deaths associated with AKI and the fact that many could be prevented, from the recently published Patient Safety Alert from NHS Improvement. The Stage 2 alert highlighted the resources available to…

Last week Think Kidneys launched its campaign to raise awareness off the importance of our kidneys for health and life with the general public. While we had many more visitors to the website and social media went a little crazy for most of the week following the discussion on the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2, we still have thousands of posters to give to the…

Following production of resources for general practice to raise awareness and skills in managing AKI warning stage test results, we have worked with the RCGP to develop a new online AKI module. The accredited module, which takes around 30 minutes to complete, considers that over half of incidences of AKI begin in the community and describes which patients are at greater risk of AKI, how to…

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust launched STOP AKI on 11 April. Andy Lewington and colleagues at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust presented to medics and nursing staff their improvement work called ‘STOP AKI’. The aim of the event was to raise awareness of AKI within the organisation – how it can be better prevented, treated and managed. The team is now rolling out the programme across…

From this month Acute Kidney Injury Warning Stage Test Results, which are generated when a significant change in creatinine concentration is measured, will start to arrive into general practice on existing IT systems. The change is the result of NHS England’s Safety Alert and detection algorithm, which has been implemented in most path labs’ information management systems across the country. GPs and practice nurses requesting serum…