Here is a round-up of the latest news from Think Kidneys and our partners interested in the prevention of avoidable acute kidney injury.
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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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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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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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