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Think about rationing by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Resources for health care be they people, knowledge, time or money are and always have been limited. Rationing seems to be a word not terribly much used in pol ... Read on »

Official Opening of the Edgware Renal Centre by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Patients with kidney conditions in north London are benefiting from a new facility which has brought treatment closer to their homes. The Royal Free has invested £3milli ... Read on »

Balancing Quality, Safety and Value- an Olympic challenge by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Kidney care teams up and down the country are facing an Olympic challenge to deliver the best possible healthcare for people with kidney disease in a timely, effi ... Read on »

Being a patient champion, what does it mean? by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure The dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship have evolved over recent decades from a model of benevolent paternalism to a framework centred around shared decision ... Read on »

Rare Diseases Consultation by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure The dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship have evolved over recent decades from a model of benevolent paternalism to a framework centred around shared decision ma ... Read on »

Powerful Patient Stories by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Last week on World Kidney Day, the London Acute Kidney Injury Network was launched at the Welcome Foundation. Michael Wise told the audience about his experiences and ... Read on »

Patient experience: moving centre stage by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure For everyone who uses the health system experience of care is an important outcome, for some the phrase “the experience is the outcome” is literally true. Patient experien ... Read on »

My unit won't let me dialyse at home- Why not? by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure 'I want to dialysis at Home – but my unit is not keen saying that although I am a suitable patient they do not have the Nurses or the resource for such an experiment – ... Read on »

Adding Value: The National Kidney Care Quality Innovation, Productivity and Prevention Plan by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure It is now over 8 years since the national service framework for kidney services was published and we have come along way. Chronic kidney disease is seen as common, harmful ... Read on »

What are you doing for World Kidney Day? by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure The Acute Kidney Injury NECPOD report “Adding Insult to Injury” surfaced a major problem in the prompt recognition of ALI risk and its management in the acutely unwell. I ... Read on »

Green Nephrology: the 2012 Zero Waste Challenge by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Kidney units can make big carbon and £ savings by slimming down their use of dialysis consumables. Units in the Green Nephrology Network are making this their mission ... Read on »

Innovate or else! by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Reducing unnecessary face to face contacts by using by using what we persist in calling the new technology (I wonder if people will be using the same phrase in 500 year ... Read on »

Dignity day - what are you doing about it? by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure "It might well be that the difference people make individually is a mere ripple on the surface of our care system, but each of those ripples added together create a wave, ... Read on »

Sharing Knowledge: The New Power by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure One of the pleasures on a cold winter’s night in January is to either scramble around to get the final data and analysis to write an abstract or sit back with a stack of ... Read on »

Futures Forum Plugs Renal Patient Review by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure The Futures Forum was set up to advice on the development of the health service so that patients will be at the centre of every decision, and quality will be the organisi ... Read on »

Variation - The other side of the coin by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Unbeknownst to me whilst I was extolling the virtues of looking for variation to identify where improvements might be likely to succeed, in another part of the blog-o-sph ... Read on »

Unwarranted variation: the engine of improvement by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure You would have to be living in deepest outer space not to have noticed that the NHS is changing. Indeed Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive of the NHS has famously gone on ... Read on »

Health Survey England: secrets exposed by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Why aren’t people with kidney disease told about their condition? I would have thought it was a basic right but there is a lot of evidence that there is systematic secrecy ... Read on »

Christmas message 2011 by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Sir David Nicholson in his foreword to the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012-13 draws attention to the need to get the basics right every time. The cause of s ... Read on »

What is self management support? by Dr. Donal O'Donoghue Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure The actions individuals and carers take for themselves, their children, their families and others to stay fit and maintain good physical and mental health: meet social an ... Read on »

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