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And the winner of the Individual Fab Change Champion Award 2018 is Leeanne Lockley! These words resound in my head every day; never in my wildest dreams would I envisage winning a ‘Fab Award’ presented by NHS England CEO Simon Stevens!   But what does this mean? These awards are hosted by the Academy of Fab Stuff. A social movement platform that allows everyone who has made…

The national report of kidney patient experience in the UK has been published today highlighting that transport (to and from clinics for dialysis); needling (how often the renal team insert dialysis needles with as little pain as possible) and shared decision making about care remain the areas where patients still feel most improvement is needed. The Kidney Patient Reported Experience Measure (Kidney PREM) is a major initiative which aims to put kidney…

The KQuIP South West regional day summary report is now available to read online. This day was held at the Holiday Inn, Taunton on Thursday 4th October 2018 and brought together the South West renal community including medical, multi-disciplinary colleagues, commissioners and patients to consider and discuss data provided by the UK Renal Registry and NHSBT.  Colleagues from the South West were involved in developing the programme for…

Welcome to the first quarterly newsletter from the UK Renal Registry Quality Improvement Team, calling on the public and professionals, within and beyond the kidney community to Think Kidneys.

KQuIP are looking for people with an interest or expertise in improving care for people with kidney disease through facilitation, project management, quality improvement or leadership. You will become part of a network of experts that can mentor, guide and support the renal community in their work to increase the quality of care for patients and the public. Applications to the KQuIP faculty are not limited…