North West

Kidney teams across the North West are working on a range of projects to improve dialysis care, from supportive care and peritoneal dialysis to increasing opportunities for people receiving haemodialysis to take a more active role in their treatment.

Enhanced supportive care – Liverpool
Reducing peritonitis – Wirral
Shared haemodialysis care – Liverpool
Acute peritoneal dialysis – Salford

More on dialysis improvement

The DAYLife Knowledge Hub brings together practical resources, evidence and learning to support home dialysis and shared haemodialysis care.

Projects across the North West are exploring different aspects of care for people approaching kidney failure, including how advanced kidney care is described, patient education and the role of frailty in care.

Advanced kidney care – Preston
Patient education videos – Manchester
Frailty in advanced kidney care – Wirral

More on advanced kidney care

Transform AKC is working to improve care for people approaching kidney failure, bringing together lived experience and professional expertise to develop and test improvements in advanced kidney care.

North West kidney teams are also working to improve different stages of the transplantation pathway, including access to transplantation and assessment before transplant.

Transplant First – Salford
Pre-transplant cardiac function assessment – Manchester

More on transplant improvement

The Transplant First Knowledge Hub brings together tools, resources and learning from transplantation quality improvement projects across the UK.

Projects in Preston and Liverpool are focusing on different aspects of vascular access care for people receiving haemodialysis.

Improving vascular access surveillance – Preston
Improving fistula and graft care – Liverpool