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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.

Previous Events

Celebrating success, planning together.

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