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Policy documents and guidance for professionals working for the prevention and treatment of kidney disorders. Includes information on the Renal National Service Framework (NSF).
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4 September 2008
6 August 2008
Report of a workshop on renal supportive and end of life care, held on 14 April 2008. The aim of the workshop was to consult on the possible contents of an action plan to assist the NHS in implementing the renal National Service framework over the next 18 months to 2 years.
9 June 2008
Prescribing guidelines to ensure best practice in the care of kidney patients during the last weeks or days of their lives. Part of the LCP programme to extend LCP to kidney disease. The guidelines were developed by an expert project group, overseen by the LCP Renal Steering Group, and have been endorsed by the Department of Health, the Renal Association and the British Renal Society.
8 April 2007
Find out how your PCT and SHA compares to others on recording prevalence of people with chronic kidney disease as measured in the Quality and Outcomes Framework from 2006/7.
7 April 2008
19 November 2007
10 September 2007
Following responses to a thirteen-week consultation, this document provides revised eligibility criteria for non-emergency patient transport services. It supersedes Ambulance and other patient transport services - operation, use and performance standards (1991).
Guidance and circular on home haemodialysis
The following circulars provide guidance on home haemodialysis.
The National Service Framework (NSF) for Renal Services: key documents
The National Service Framework for Renal Services, launched in January 2004 to raise the quality of care provided for people with kidney disease, increase their choice, and minimise the impact of their disease.
NSF-related publications
Includes: toolkit for commissioners; the information strategy; the report of a workforce modernisation project; a summary of guidance on haemodialysis away from home; advice on renal-specific, and more general, management of medicines, and the Regulatory Impact Assessment for Part Two.
Renal action learning sets
Learning sets bring together key individuals in service delivery in small dynamic groups to learn with others by probing, understanding and action.
Renal services: workshop reports, examples of good practice and good practice pathways
Reports from workshops, with some of the excellent practice which exists in the renal community, in a helpful pathways structure.
Chronic kidney disease: prevalence
Find out how your PCT and SHA compares to others on recording prevalence of people with chronic kidney disease as measured in the Quality and Outcomes Framework from 2006/7.
Estimated GFR
Links to information sheets on the use of an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).
Renal information
Guidance on prevention and control of blood-borne virus infection, and on living donor reimbursement.
Clarification of guidance on exemption from prescription charges for renal dialysis patients
This clarification of guidance on exemption from prescription charges for renal dialysis patients was issued in the Chief Executive's Bulletin of 1-7 December 2000, Issue 44.
Additional links
Haemodialysis patient checklist
A checklist of questions to help patients understand their treatment options, be part of the decision to choose the treatment that works for them, and ask questions.
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