Renal

Transition from child to adult service, adolescent diagnosed with kidney disease, child diagnosed with kidney disease before birth and end of life care pathway

• Renal services: examples of good practice

Links to National Service Framework documents: Part One: Dialysis and Transplantation; Part Two: Chronic Kidney Disease, Acute Renal Failure and End of Life Care.

• The National Service Framework for Renal Services

The standards and markers of good practice of the National Service Framework (NSF) for Renal Services apply to patients of all ages, but this document relates them specifically to the care of children and young people, in greater detail than was possible in the NSF itself. It also brings them together with recommendations from the NSF for Children, Young People and Maternity Services, to make an accessible, user-friendly document for all those with an interest in services for children and young people with kidney disease.

• The national service framework for renal services: working for children and young people

Links to the documents setting out the evidence base for part one and part two of the National Service Framework for Renal Services.

Comments from key organisations and stakeholders on the publication of Part Two of the NSF for Renal Services on 3 February 2005.

A summary of progress to date towards achieving the standards and early actions set out in the Renal NSF, together with a review of the modernisation programme supporting delivery of the NSF.

Links to information sheets on the use of an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).

• Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR)

Links to documents relevant to the National Service Framework for Renal Services: a toolkit for commissioners; the information strategy; the report of a workforce modernisation project; a summary of guidance on haemodialysis away from home; advice on renal-specific, and more general, management of medicines, and the Regulatory Impact Assessment for Part Two.

Guidance on prevention and control of blood-borne virus infection, and on living donor reimbursement.

Renal action learning sets have been established in the areas of non-emergency patient transport for dialysis patients, in urban and rural areas; information and prevention of chronic kidney disease in primary care, and the extension of palliative care to renal services. Learning sets bring together key individuals in service delivery in small dynamic groups to learn with others by probing, understanding and action.

This Report follows the Renal Action Learning Sets Sharing Event in January 2006. It provides a summary of the work of the learning sets and includes a note from the project lead and the national facilitator as well as the slides from the day. Also included is some valuable information which resulted from the lively discussions which took place on the day.

An information pack (available in March 2006) on Action Learning, including a DVD which captures the experience of the Action Learning Sets commissioned by the Department to work on service improvements for renal and pathology services, together with a leaflet giving further information on the work of the Renal (and Pathology) Action Learning Sets, and a handbook on Action Learning.

This clarification of guidance on exemption from prescription charges for renal dialysis patients was issued in the Chief Executive’s Bulletin of 1-7 December 2000, Issue 44.

A note about those who contributed to the NSF for Renal Services.

Useful external links to web pages on renal matters.

Contact details for the DH for Renal Services team.