Support and retention
Infection prevention, post-infection follow-up, respite, assisted therapies, renal psychosocial services
In order to make our service sustainable for the future, we must listen to our patients, invest in what will enable them to dialyse at home, and have the infrastructure to support the patients once they are there...
Example change ideas to get you thinking (from previous DAYLife participants)
- Implement a policy for post-peritonitis and exit site infection follow up and refresher training (Leicester)
- Examine home handwashing and connect/disconnecting technique amongst peritoneal dialysis patients via home video or home visits (Coventry)
- Offer PD technique retraining to the whole peritoneal dialysis population (Derby)
- Recruit and set up a peer support group (Coventry)
- Host a home therapy patient social event (Coventry)
- Pilot use of video consultations for home therapy patients (Coventry)
- Expand assisted APD service (Nottingham)
- Upskill health care assistants to carry out assisted APD (Coventry)
- Document anticipation of failure and frailty of home therapy patients and offer proactive community/respite support (Derby)
