The Transplant First project was a West Midlands Clinical Network project that is being packaged by KQuIP to provide resources and support to enable other interested regions to develop their work in this area.
After analysing data provided by the UK Renal Registry and NHS Blood and Transplant it was identified that the West Midlands region had some of the longest waiting times for kidney transplantation in the UK. This highlighted the need for quality improvement and after an initial launch event a project mandate was developed. This project aimed to address the inequality in access to kidney transplantation for suitable adult and paediatric patients in the West Midlands.
The team have now developed a “How To” guide, so that others can benefit from the experience of the project, leading to improvements in patient care, and it can be downloaded here.