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Spring has arrived, and so have our new PAM/PROM surveys!
Over the last twelve months you have been involved in surveying 2,500 patients using the ‘Your Health Survey’. Thank you for your commitment and the effort you have put in to reaching this achievement. During 2017 the TP-CKD Programme is focussing on whether it is possible to routinely re-survey these patients, and spread the survey collection to encompass a larger sample, using our new and improved PAM/PROM survey.
New Surveys: You should have received, or be about to receive a new batch of Your Health Surveys, which include an extra question on the front page on treatment type. Using these new surveys will enable us to break down patient activation scores by modality, thus strengthening our analysis. Please disregard any old surveys you have left over, and use only these new versions from now on!
On top of this, you should all now be familiar with the Interventions Toolkit. Over the next few months, we will be working with you, through workshops, calls and meetings, to assess the feasibility of these interventions, with a view to supporting your unit to introduce small cycles of change in practice towards more person-centred care. By testing the feasibility of these interventions, the programme hopes to answer question three of the hypotheses: Can the use of intervention programmes help to improve a patients’ level of skills, knowledge and confidence to manage their own kidney health needs?