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By Cheryl Matthews, Senior Sister, Heeley Satellite Dialysis Unit, Northern General Hospital Things are looking good at Sheffield Satellite Dialysis Unit. In April 2013 Sheffield Satellite Unit was joined with Sheffield Kidney Institute, the main unit across at Northern General Hospital (NGH). As a new Senior Sister, my first impressions of the unit were that we had inherited a small team of very hard working, conscientious…
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The online PREM survey is now open until 31st August 2017 The Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM), an annual survey open to all adult renal patients in England and Wales, has been extended this year. Patients wishing to fill out the survey online can now do so until the 31st August 2017. We hope this will enable greater numbers of patients to take part, making the…
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Rachel Gair, Person Centred Care Facilitator and Catherine Stannard, Programme Support Officer for the TP-CKD Programme ran a series of sessions and workshops with staff at King’s College Hospital (KCH) Renal Department on Tuesday 13th June 2017. The visit report is now available to read here.
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By Catherine Stannard, Programme Support Officer at the UK Renal Registry When I began my new role as Programme Support Officer for Transforming Participation in CKD at the end of February 2017, I had very little knowledge, or experience of Chronic Kidney Disease. From the offset, my priority was to try and understand what living with Chronic Kidney Disease meant to people – to those living…
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The Transforming Participation in Chronic Kidney Disease Programme are delighted to welcome two new patient representatives to the programme board – Peter Naish and Shaila Hussain. Here, in their own words, they describe a bit about their background, their experience of Chronic Kidney Disease, and their reasons behind getting involved in the programme. Follow the link on their names to read Peter and Shaila’s stories.
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