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Think Kidneys have published a practical guide for community staff to help with recognising and responding to AKI. The cards – A6/postcard sized are designed to be carried in pockets and diaries and give practical advice for those working in the community – whether it is in a care home, a community nurse or ambulance crew. The card can be downloaded here, or you can request…
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Each year the RCGP’s Clinical Innovation and Research Centre (CIRC) takes on new clinical priorities and highlights quality improvement projects to champion specific clinical areas for its 50,000 members. Think Kidneys is delighted that one of their areas for development and adoption and spread in 2017 will be acute kidney injury. The aim is to improve the recognition of and response to AKI in primary care….
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I am sat here looking at my running shoes. I have that guilty feeling since I haven’t gone out for a jog for a few weeks. Instead, I have an Easter egg in my hand. And then there are the headlines. ‘Marathons are bad for your health, scientists warn runners’ screamed the headline in the Daily Telegraph. The article came in response to research published in…
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Think Kidneys are delighted to announce that our resources to support the six statements of the NICE AKI quality standard have now published on the NICE website. Over the past three years, Think Kidneys has worked with many different individuals and groups including expert professionals and patients – on the development of clinical tools and resources that will change behaviour and improve patient care and safety….
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Not quite over and out… After more than three years, the national Think Kidneys Acute Kidney Injury programme, established to improve the care of people with, or at risk of AKI, has concluded its main body of work, formally closes at the end of March. Read the full newsletter here:
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