Think Kidneys Supports AKI Frontiers Conference

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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Kidney colleagues interested in quality improvement?

KQuIP is always on the lookout for new quality improvement initiatives or learning opportunities to share with the kidney community. The Horizons team is offering a virtual learning opportunity for people leading and/or supporting change in health and care called the School for Change Agents. The School for Change Agents is free of charge and open to anyone who is passionate about improving health and care…

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KQuIP Supports New People Development Initiative from NHS Improvement

Published on 1 December by NHS Improvement, ‘Developing People – Improving Care: a national framework on action on improvement and leadership development in NHS funded services’ has come at the right time for KQuIP. Recognising that education and learning are required to develop people to deliver the culture and drive for improvement, is an essential tenet of the development of quality improvement for renal services. KQuIP’s…

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The Health Foundation ‘Q’ initiative is open for applications

Q is an initiative connecting people with improvement expertise across the UK. Through Q the Health Foundation is creating “opportunities for people to come together as an improvement community – sharing ideas, enhancing skills and collaborating to make health and care better.” The Think Kidneys programmes fully support this initiative and its aim is to develop continuous and sustainable improvement in health and care for the…

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Think Kidneys – KQuIP Calling All Renal Staff!

KQuIP provides a major opportunity for renal teams working with patients to improve the quality of care and to help deliver the ambitions agreed by the whole kidney community in the publication Kidney Health: Delivering Excellence. The KQuIP Education Workstream has created an online survey to gather baseline information about quality improvement education to help inform and guide the workstream’s initial areas of work. We would…

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