Dialysis at Home
Purpose
The Dialysis at Home Team promotes home-based dialysis as a safe, effective, and sustainable alternative to hospital-based treatment.
The team aims to provide personalized care and support to patients, helping them to take an active role in their own care and maintaining a good quality of life. The LKN Dialysis at Home Worsktream’s drive is to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospital admissions, and enhance the overall quality of care.
LKN Leads
Richard Corbet
Consultant Nephrologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
The London Kidney Network offers a great opportunity to support people with kidney failure to receive care closer to home. Working with colleagues across London, we hope to improve equitable access to both peritoneal dialysis and home haemodialysis so that more people will have the opportunity to experience the benefits that come from dialysing at home.
Dialysis at Home in London
Dialysis at home can offer people living with kidney disease an improved quality of life, increasing independence, whilst offering good value for the NHS. The workstream is looking to not only expand access to home dialysis but also ensure that people who do choose to dialyse at home receive high quality care including appropriate support and low rates of complications.
Aims and objectives of the group:
Aims and Objectives
The Dialysis at Home Workstream will work collaboratively with partners to:
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- Increase % of people recieving home haemodialysis (HHD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD)
- Increase % of people who remain on (PD) for more than 1 year
- Define an appropriately trained and resourced MDT workforce able to deliver high quality care in community and hospital settings.
- Achieve a significant and sustained improvement in peritonitis rates and outcomes.
- Define, agree, and support implementation of timely access to comprehensive, local, person-centered training for all people starting PD
- Increase both prevalent and incident numbers of patients on PD
- Improve access to timely PD catheter insertion and re-insertion to support prevalent and incident population on PD
- Ensure Health inequality is addressed and not widen through the PD improvement plans.
Completed Work
Guideline for Reimbursement Costs for Patients on Home Dialysis
Curriculum for training and Assessment of competence to the Peritoneal dialysis catheter
Published reports
Training patients and their carers to manage peritoneal dialysis – what good looks like
Peritoneal dialysis nursing workforce across London