Can your unit take part in a sustainability group scholar programme?A new UKKA Sustainable Kidney Care Committee has been set up in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) and the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition.Committee workstreams cover: Action Learning and Education...

Sevda Hassan, MBBS, BMedSci (Hons) MRCP (Lon), MD(Res) September 1983 - February 2022 It is with unimaginable sadness that we announce the death of our dear friend and colleague Sevda. Sevda graduated from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2008 and completed her training in...

The UKKA has a number of opportunities to chair committees and input into key areas. Participation in these committees benefits the wider renal community through the creation of useful resources, projects and outputs. It also offers the opportunity for networking, leadership experience and ensures...

The effort which has been given to the procurement and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the UK has been extraordinary. The kidney community would like to see this incredible success built on by committing the United Kingdom to join a unified effort to end the pandemic through global and equitable...

Happy New Year!Thank you to all who worked so hard over the holiday period and who continue to work now to keep our patients safe. Below is a round-up of the latest news on COVID-19 from the professional community. Overall pictureThe situation remains challenging across the UK with busy workloads...

A landmark paper paving the way for NHS care to be improved for patients with post-hospitalisation acute kidney injury (AKI) has been published by the UK Renal Registry (UKRR) in collaboration with the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme.Centre variation in mortality following post...

It is with great regret that we have been forced to postpone the residential Advanced Nephrology Course due to take place at Corpus Christi in Oxford January 4-8th 2022, due to the rapidly emerging coronavirus Omicron surge.We feel that it is not tenable and irresponsible to organise a 4-day...

Thank you to everybody for the work that you are doing, these are incredibly tough times and the last 20 months have been unparalleled in our careers as health care professionals. What is coming in the next few months may be even more challenging, therefore the UKKA and renal community COVID-19...

The UK Renal Registry has been mandated by the Clinical Reference Group (CRG) and NHS England to collect patient identifiers from renal centres in England. The information will be used for linkage with the COVID-19 database at NHS Digital for regular reporting of COVID-19 infections and vaccinations...

Kidney Beam, the platform helping kidney patients’ wellbeing through live, online and on-demand exercise classes and programmes, is being bolstered by support across the kidney community.In an unprecedented move, the UK Kidney Association is joining forces with Kidney Research UK, Kidney Care UK and...