Following the national meeting in November 2018, over 60 members of the multi-professional teams, patients and families came together on Friday 28th June in Birmingham to launch the Paediatric Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership (KQuIP). The day was co-chaired by Daljit Hothi, consultant nephrologist from GOSH, and Kamal Dhesi, patient advocate and carer.
13 renal units from across the UK were represented and received a whistle-stop tour of the quality improvement approach, presentations from the co-chairs on the importance of collaboration and leadership for successful change, as well as a learning needs assessment to help shape the future training offered by KQuIP.
The teams then broke out into four project groups – one for each of the KQuIP supported QI projects – to define goals and objectives, primary measures of success and to establish their project teams and ways of working. The four project areas being worked on over the next year are: Access, Home Therapies, Transplantation and Dietetics.
Each project has a lead within the paediatric community who will be working with teams to shape and progress the quality improvement initiatives chosen, and who will be supported by the co-chairs and KQuIP Programme Managers, Rachel Gair and Catherine Stannard.
The next KQuIP paediatric national meeting will be on Friday October 11th in Birmingham – save the date!