When it happens to you, your world falls apart. Maybe not completely, maybe only a little bit. But this is all there is now. It’s hard to focus on anything else. Nothing matters…. except surviving. I’m sitting in front of a lovely man who’s giving me loads of information and telling me how it’s going to be. How I’m going to be. A nurse leans on…
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By Ron Cullen, Chief Executive, Renal Association The UK Renal Registry’s mission statement, “Putting Data into Action” aims to improve patient care by national audit and supporting research, innovation and quality improvement (QI). As the quality of the Registry’s data has improved, so has the desire to make a positive difference to kidney patients with the data we collect, and to ensure “quality assurance and quality…
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By Cheryl Matthews, Senior Sister, Heeley Satellite Dialysis Unit, Northern General Hospital Things are looking good at Sheffield Satellite Dialysis Unit. In April 2013 Sheffield Satellite Unit was joined with Sheffield Kidney Institute, the main unit across at Northern General Hospital (NGH). As a new Senior Sister, my first impressions of the unit were that we had inherited a small team of very hard working, conscientious…
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By Catherine Stannard, Programme Support Officer at the UK Renal Registry When I began my new role as Programme Support Officer for Transforming Participation in CKD at the end of February 2017, I had very little knowledge, or experience of Chronic Kidney Disease. From the offset, my priority was to try and understand what living with Chronic Kidney Disease meant to people – to those living…
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Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust – Plymouth CKD Team Blog We’re in on TP-CKD and Working Hard for Success Our initial experience left us feeling very proud of the strong representation from Plymouth that attended the first TP CKD event in London. We had so many people from Derriford Hospital that the organisers had to find extra seats! On our return we applied our enthusiasm and…
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