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Welcome to the first quarterly newsletter from the UK Renal Registry Quality Improvement Team, calling on the public and professionals, within and beyond the kidney community to Think Kidneys.
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Did you or your kidney unit take part in the 2017 Kidney Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM)? Whether you are a patient or member of staff, your unit’s patient experience data is accessible from the Registry on request. Simply download and complete the application form and return it by email to ukrr-research@renalregistry.nhs.uk. If you would like to have an informal chat to us prior to submitting your form, please…
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By Ron Cullen, Chief Executive, Renal Association The UK Renal Registry’s mission statement, “Putting Data into Action” aims to improve patient care by national audit and supporting research, innovation and quality improvement (QI). As the quality of the Registry’s data has improved, so has the desire to make a positive difference to kidney patients with the data we collect, and to ensure “quality assurance and quality…
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The Registry quality improvement team presented TP-CKD at sessions throughout UK Kidney Week this year. You can view the abstracts that were presented by clicking on the links below: Associations Between Patient Activation, Patient Characteristics and Patient Outcomes Implementing a national adult Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) for kidney patients Routine Collection of Patient Reported Outcome Measures and Renal Unit Cultural Characteristics There were also several…
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The 2017 Patient Reported Experience Measure report for England and Wales, a joint collaboration between Kidney Care UK and the UK Renal Registry is now available to download. Click here to read the full report. We are grateful to our colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire who have worked hard to analyse the patient responses and prepare this report. With a total of 11,027 patients who…
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