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The UK Renal Registry (UKRR) wants to ensure that patients are at the heart of everything they do. Over the last two years they have established a Patient Council and are now looking for new members to join. If you are a kidney patient or the relation or carer of a kidney patient, you might like to think about joining. The Patient Council: Gets involved in…
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Think Kidneys have produced patient information leaflets for patients at risk of AKI, and for those who have experienced an episode of AKI. These have been developed in collaboration with the British Kidney Patients Association and the RCGP, and both leaflets are now live on patient.info so that GPs and other community staff can access them for print to give out to patients. You can…
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The Risk study is about Risk prediction for acute kidney Injury in acute medical admissionS in the uK Acute Kidney Injury is common in patients admitted to hospital as an emergency – between 10 – 20% of people may have it. This study will investigate whether the use of a ‘risk score’ for patients being admitted can help predict who is at risk of…
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A very satisfactory end to the week on Friday 26th August – Sky News took up on the theme of AKI with a patient, Andrew Quille, who recently suffered from AKI being shown on film with Chris Laing, his consultant. Richard Fluck was also interviewed so we have achieved a much higher profile for AKI after Sky picked up on the Patient Safety Alert from NHS Improvement,…
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Comms on a Page provides you with the latest brief messages about progress on the Think Kidneys programme. More detailed information can be found across the website.
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