How do I use the Remote Kidney Care Toolkit?
The purpose of the Remote Kidney Care Toolkit is to highlight best practice and improve the quality of remote kidney care appointments for people from underserved groups.
The Remote Kidney Care Toolkit was supported by a grant from Kidney Care UK.
This Toolkit was developed by a project team led by Professor Nicola Thomas. Other members of the project team were Fez Awan, Dr Jyoti Baharani, Dr Emma Coyne, Dr Gavin Dreyer, Cat Ewart, Chipiliro Kalebe-Nyamongo, Udita Mitra, Patricia Tum and Professor Martin Wilkie.
We listened to the voices of people with kidney disease about their experiences through interviews and focus groups. We also heard from staff working in renal units about their experiences through a survey.
Patient interview/focus group data identified four improvement themes:
- quality of appointment
- patient empowerment
- patient-practitioner relationship
- unique needs for underserved groups.
We developed this Toolkit for people working in kidney care based on what we heard. We hope that the information presented here will help improve the experiences of patients and healthcare professionals as they make use of remote appointments.
The Toolkit includes information for clinicians and information that can be shared with patients.
A paper in the Journal of Renal Care describes the full study and can be freely accessed: Getting the most out of remote care: Co-developing a Toolkit to improve the delivery of remote kidney care appointments for underserved groups.