10 March 2016 was World Kidney Day and Think Kidneys showcased our new information for everyone on ‘Almost everything you need to know about your kidneys’ (click to view) Unveiling the information on a banner at the RCGP’s event – ‘making kidney care a priority in primary care’ – it was well received as useful and practical information for anyone wanting to know about their kidneys,…
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NHS England’s most recent web publication (10 March 2016) is all about Improving discharge from secondary to primary and social care. The eight standards for the communication of patient diagnostic test results on discharge from hospital can be accessed here, and include two case studies which relate and are relevant to renal care. The case studies outline the information which needs to be shared between health…
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Our new Infographic covers (almost) everything you need to know about your kidneys
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Nutrition and hydration week 14 – 20 March 2016 One Easter weekend I opened a newspaper to be greeted with headlines about thousands of people dying from dehydration in NHS hospitals every year. The article was based on a recent publication analysing the role that acute kidney injury had in driving premature mortality in people who were acutely unwell. What is acute kidney injury or AKI…
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Dr Chris Laing, Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Co-Chair of the Think Kidneys education workstream has been working together with DeepMind Health on the co-development of an innovative mobile application called Streams, to detect cases of acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI is a contributing factor in up to 40,000 deaths in the UK every year, and is attributed to up…
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