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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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Think Kidneys Hits the Media

On Friday 26th August the Think Kidneys programme took to the airways with a 10-minute feature on acute kidney injury on Sky News. Sky News had picked up the story, particularly the annual number of deaths associated with AKI and the fact that many could be prevented, from the recently published Patient Safety Alert from NHS Improvement. The Stage 2 alert highlighted the resources available to health…

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Success is the sum of a lot of small things done correctly

By Louise Wells, Co-chair of KQuIP, British Renal Society Vice President – Clinical Development and Advanced Clinical Specialist Renal Dietitian Attending the annual British Renal Society/Renal Association conference offers multiple opportunities for reflection and learning. Catching up with friends and colleagues across the multidisciplinary team; networking – sharing thoughts, ideas and experiences; being inspired by, and celebrating the excellent work taking place within the renal community; wondering…

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