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Supportive Care in Kidney Disease

Advanced Care Planning in Kidney Disease

GP Training Webinar

The LKN Supportive Care Workstream ran a webinar for GPs on Friday 29 September 2023, which was co-produced with GPs and secondary care clinicans. 

E-modules and Webinars

Supportive Care e-Module

The Supportive care e-module is now live! If you’d like to learn more about Supportive Care follow this link – Supportive Care

Health Equity Education Module

The Health Equity Education Module introduces the concepts of health inequalities and health inequity. It highlights the unequal health outcomes experienced by people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and covers practical ideas to tackle health inequalities for staff working with kidney patients. ​ 

You can view the module here. Health Equity Education Module.

UK Kidney Week 2024- LKN Posters and Oral Abstracts

UKKW 2024 LKN Posters

You can find all the LKN UKKW Posters here: Posters

1. Kidney DOM (Dialysis Occupancy Measure):Developing a standardised reporting tool for In-centre Haemodialysis (ICHD) capacity to manage rising demand

2. Survey of London Renal Trainees on their experience of managing young people with renal disease

3. London Kidney Network Supportive Care Data Audit: Exploring The Possibilities; Understand The Challenges

4. London Transplant Collaborative Patient Co-Designed Pathway for Mutual Aid

5. Modelling peritoneal dialysis starts to support home dialysis growth

6. Collaborative working through a renal Network to lead improvements in Supportive Care across London

UKKW 2024 LKN Oral Abstracts

You can find all the LKN UKKW Oral Abstracts here: Oral Abstracts

1.Tackling kidney inequalities: The development of the London Kidney Network (LKN) Health Inequalities in Kidney Care online learning module

2.Peritoneal dialysis nursing workforce: how does variation within a regional network effect quality of care?

3.Kidney Supportive Care – Staff education. Development of a bespoke kidney supportive care education package

4. New clinical pathways to transform identification and management of early stage chronic kidney disease in people with and without Type 2 diabetes across London  

 

Previous Events

Celebrating success, planning together.

LKN Sharing & Engagement Event

27 March 2024

This webinar provided an opportunity to: 

✔️Showcase the work happening across the LKN

✔️Share the progress and achievements in kidney care in London over the last year

✔️Hear from experts and leaders about work in Health Equity, Supportive Care, CKD Prevention, Transplant, Patient Engagement, Home Therapies, Data, and more

 

It covered

  • Progress made across the whole kidney patient pathway, including early intervention, transplant and home dialysis
  • The impact of joint working between the LKN and NCL
  • Approaches and initiatives adopted by the Diabetes Network and the imperative for joint working across inter-related specialities, cardio-renal-metabolic networks
  • The work and patient literature of Kidney Care UK, Kidney Research UK and the National Kidney Federation
  • The LKNs e-modules on Kidney Health Equity and Advanced care planning and Supportive care
  • A keynote speech about the UCL Comic Kidney Disease programme

Attendance

109

Feedback

“As a patient, it is simply massively empowering to sit in a room full of eager kidney disease stakeholders who are trying to improve various aspects of kidney health care”

“An efficient and educational day” 

“It was a really excellent and enjoyable educational meeting and I certainly got a great deal out of it”

Vascular Nurse Leads education and dialysis nurse training events

20 March 2024

This webinar provided an opportunity to: 

✔️Learn more about best nursing practices in vascular access

✔️Improve day-to-day practice

✔️Share best practice and case study insights

 

It covered

  • Best practice and reflections on complex cases 
  • Expert insights about service improvement initiatives across the UK and their application in London
  • Show-casing of teaching skills, and sharing experiences and knowledge
  • Explanations on how vascular access is formed, avoiding and managing aneurysms, and using ultrasound guidance to facilitate access
  • A patient’s personal experience of permanent vascular access and needling techniques

Attendance

54

Feedback

Feedback was unanimously positive:

Words used to describe the afternoon included “informative”, “productive”, “encouraging”, “excellent”, and “refreshing”.

98% of attendees planned to make a change in their practice as a result of the day

Transplant Collaborative Event

14 March 2024

This webinar provided an opportunity to: 

✔️ Discuss a 5-year Transplant Plan for London

✔️Consider key areas and share ideas about: 
the growing demand for in-centre dialysis, equitable access to transplantation for all those approaching end-stage kidney disease increasing the number of donors, and  improving the long-term outcomes for patients with kidney transplants 

 

It covered

  • Workforce, infrastructure, and patient & community engagement
  • The building blocks for the strategy’s further development
  • The next steps for consolidating the feedback into the plan, creating an implementation plan and producing the first draft of the 5-year Transplant Plan

Attendance

74

Feedback

Feedback was unanimously positive:

“It was a good day spent”

“Good to see the right people in the room collaborating”

“[the]Workshops had really good and strong content”

Working with Independent Providers to deliver In-centre haemodialysis in London

19 February 2024

This webinar provided an opportunity to: 

✔️ Hear from ex-independent provider service leaders how working with independent providers can support NHS ICHD service delivery

 

It covered

  • Find out how working  with independent providers to deliver ICHD could help provide increased ICHD capacity across London
  • Hear top tips on how to work with independent providers
  • Learn from experts in the field how independent providers can support NHS services to deliver high quality ICHD services

Attendance

9

Feedback

“Thank-you for arranging a very useful session”

Supportive Care Audit Half Day

15 December 2023

This webinar provided an opportunity to: 

✔️ Come together to share best practice from across London.  To hear for the first time what the LKN Supportive Care audit showed, and to find out how Universal Care Plan could support our goal to increase numbers of patient with an advanced Care Plan.

 

It covered

  1. Audit data findings and key learning from each unit
  2. Service Improvement and Development examples from across London, led by a broad spectrum of professionals
  3. How can UCP be used effectively to support ACP in renal disease

Attendance

40

Feedback

Home Haemodialysis, Planning for the Future

26 September 2023

This webinar provided an opportunity to: 

✔️ Meet together to discuss and plan how to meet local patient’s needs using diverse methods to reflect the complexity of London’s population

It covered

  1. Improvement in Home Hemo-Dialysis care in the Manchester region– Dr Sandip Mitra, Consultant Nephrologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary 

  2. Creating trust and rapport with patients so they can confidently choose to dialyse at home- Dr Neil Duncan, Imperial College Healthcare NHS

Attendance

33

Feedback

“This gathering allowed us to learn from each other’s successes and challenges, providing a valuable platform for understanding the different scenarios and demands across London in the realm of home haemodialysis.” 

“I appreciated the open dialogue among colleagues—it’s clear that there’s a shared dedication to optimizing the delivery of care through home-based dialysis programs.”

Identifying, Coding and Managing CKD, 9 March 2023

This webinar provided an opportunity to: ​

    • ️Understand the importance of identifying CKD early ​
    • Learn how to identify and screen those at risk of CKD ​
    • Identify key ways to manage CKD, including medications that protect the kidneys ​
    • Understand the importance of coding CKD and how best to code CKD ​
    • Hear practical experiences and insights from primary and secondary care

It covered: ​

    1. The Kidney Health Check in adults living with diabetes or hypertension: How to identify CKD early.    ​
    2. ‘3 key interventions within 3 months to save lives’ for adults living with diabetes and kidney disease, or with proteinuric kidney disease. 
    3. The new ‘CKD Coding in Primary Care Guidelines – LKN Expert Consensus’ ​
    4. The role of the nurse/pharmacist ​​

343 people attended and 85 people viewed it on YouTube. ​

Feedback from GPs who attended: ​

“This is easily 1 of the most important educational hours that I have spent this side of the pandemic … I am very keen on the renal pathway and will probably, implement this as a quality improvement program in the practice as soon as I can.” ​

“This is an epic piece of work … it is well worth the effort.” ​

“Given all of the other rancour floating around our world, I think you have, in the space of a precious hour within the NHS, enthused me with the thought that I might be able to do some good.  Thank you for today.” 

CKD Webinar for GPs and Primary Care, 7 Sept 2022

This webinar focused on identifying and optimising CKD management early in primary care through the launch of the LKN CKD Early Identification & Optimisation Pathways.  New approaches to reduce inequalities and save lives were also covered.​

Over 150 people attended and it has been viewed 400 times on YouTube.  The webinar provided an opportunity to: 

    • ️Hear an update on identification and management of chronic kidney disease with the advent of SGLT-2 inhibitors. ​
    • Understand how to implement 3 key interventions in people with diabetic or proteinuric CKD to save lives.  ​
    • Explore the critical health inequalities context for chronic kidney disease risk and outcomes in London and Surrey Heartlands. ​
    • Take part in an interactive session where experts from primary and secondary care will be available. 

Supportive Care pan-LKN Launch, 04 February 2022

The LKN held an event, attended by 73 people, to share work between the North and South Thames teams, and to bring together the groups as a pan-London Workstream.  Testimonies from Annilyn, Kitty, Denise and Hannah gave us a clear rational for improvement and joint working.  They described how Shared Decision Making and early Supportive Care impacted on their loved ones and their own experiences of care.

The aims for the Workstream were agreed as:

  • Creating  pan-London pathway to allow for equity
  • Developing a supportive care data-set
  • Healthcare professional training and education to support consistent offer of supportive care at the time that’s right for the patient
  • Creation of patient information to encourage Shared Decision Making

LKN Clinical Learning Event, 30 June 2021

Over 200 people joined us to:

  • Launch the LKN and share our vision and workstreams with our key stakeholders
  • Educate and share experience of new treatments and strategies for improving chronic kidney disease (CKD) detection and management.
  • Create an opportunity to reflect on learning from the COVID-19 second surge, and discuss third surge preparedness

Feedback showed:

  • people had valued the opportunity to assemble as a community
  • there was an emphasis on the benefit of shared learning with colleagues, and patients.
  • future events needed to reflect the role of the multi-disciplinary team in the patient journey

Young Adults Pathway Launch, 01 December 2021

42 people joined us to learn about current young adult services and to decide priorities for the coming year.  We were joined by two exceptional speakers, young adults Billy and Ruben, whose honest reflections of the good, the bad and the ugly of their experiences in renal services were hard-hitting and powerful.

We agreed to take forward a workstream to:

  • Develop a Young Adults Pathway
  • Create a data-set for young adult services
  • Develop training and education resources for staff
  • Develop a services spec and workforce advice
  • Place young adults at the heart of the group, co-creating all resources with them, not for them