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TP-CKD at UK Kidney Week 2018

Added: 04/07/2018
News

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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TP-CKD visit to Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Northern Ireland

Added: 21/11/2017
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Last month, the TP-CKD team were invited to visit Altnagelvin Area Hospital in Northern Ireland to run a workshop with the renal team around the introduction of patient measures into their practice. The clinical lead, Dr Ying Kuan, had organised the meeting and there were over 30 attendees – nurses, patients, consultants as well as the CEO of the trust, and the local commissioner – a…

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Self Care Week 2017

Added: 14/11/2017
News

Embracing Self Care for Life – Think Kidneys embraces Self Care Week 2017 Think Kidney’s Transforming Participation in Chronic Kidney Disease Programme (TP-CKD) is embracing Self Care Week this year, which takes place 13-19 November 2017.  The theme is “engaging and empowering people” and the title is “Embracing Self Care for Life”. Self Care Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness about the benefits of self…

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Building Effective Communication at Heeley Dialysis Unit

Added: 04/09/2017
Blog

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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