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I’m always enthusiastic and motivated after attending a national conference focussed on renal dialysis access. Witnessing the opportunities for nurses networking from this kind of event are incredible, as you may observe and learn that there are regional differences on how haemodialysis access standards are applied to our own local trust practice even though there are regulatory bodies or national protocols dictated specifically on standards of…

It was 2013, 10 years since the National Service Frameworks for kidney services had been published, and the environment was changing. We believed it was time for the kidney community to evaluate what we wanted to see our community focus on in the future. I therefore instigated a piece of work to create simple and clear ambitions that patients and professionals could use as a guide…

One of the most successful meetings of the last decade has been the Manchester Home Dialysis conference. Run under the stewardship of Sandip Mitra, for the last 9 years it has been the event to attend for patients, carers, industry and clinical teams with an interest in supporting dialysis at home. And that support is needed. Despite the view that the UK underachieves in getting people…