Midlands

Improving kidney care across the Midlands

The Midlands Kidney Network brings kidney teams together to work on shared quality improvement priorities across the region. Current work focuses on reducing peritonitis, increasing access to home dialysis and improving living kidney donation.

The network’s projects link closely with KQIP’s national programmes, enabling teams to apply and contribute to wider learning through DAYLife and Transplant First.

Regional QI support

Catherine Stannard
QI Facilitator, Midlands Kidney Network

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Reducing peritonitis

Kidney teams across the Midlands are working together to reduce peritonitis and improve care for people receiving peritoneal dialysis.

Regional Aim: reduce the peritonitis infection rate in the Midlands to below 0.35 per patient year, and for no unit to have an infection rate above 0.4 per patient year

More on peritonitis improvement

The DAYLife Knowledge Hub brings together practical resources and learning to support improvement in home dialysis, including work to reduce peritonitis.

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Improving living kidney donation

The Midlands Kidney Network is working to improve living kidney donation across the region as part of its wider work to improve access to kidney transplantation.

Regional Aim: increase live donor transplant rates in the Midlands to 20pmp

More on transplant improvement

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

Transplant First Knowledge Hub →