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As a nurse, I’m aware of a welcome “buzz” in the air when it comes to AKI. Its profile has significantly risen since the launch of the NICE AKI guidance in 2013, with the term AKI cropping up in patients’ notes and at shift handovers at an ever increasing rate. AKI quality standards and a national CQUIN have emerged in the past few months. Very importantly,…

‘Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink’ – I sometimes wonder if that’s how some patients and service users feel. Over the last five or six years I have become increasingly aware that dehydration is a common problem in many of our healthcare settings – hospitals and care homes – and yet the fact that patients and residents are becoming, or are already dehydrated,…