The Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership (KQIP) is the UK’s kidney quality improvement programme, supporting healthcare professionals and renal services to improve kidney care.
KQIP works nationally and regionally to support quality improvement, deliver major improvement projects and share learning and good practice across kidney services.
Helping kidney services make home dialysis a realistic and accessible option for more people. Through mentoring, shared learning and quality improvement, the programme supports centres to strengthen home dialysis services, develop local expertise and embed sustainable improvements in care.
Giving people living with kidney disease across the UK an opportunity to share their experiences each year. The findings help services understand what is working well, identify areas for improvement and use patient experience to inform changes in the way kidney care is delivered.
A three-year national project improving care and outcomes for people with advanced kidney disease. TransformAKC is working with kidney services to understand what good care looks like, address unmet needs and develop a more holistic and consistent approach to care in the period leading up to kidney failure and KRT.
Working to reduce variation and improve access to kidney transplantation, with a particular focus on pre-emptive transplantation. The programme supports regional kidney networks to identify barriers within transplant pathways, develop local solutions and share approaches that can improve access across the UK.