Kidney Care Sustainability Network

The Kidney Care Sustainability Scholars Programme - a partnership between the UK Kidney Association (UKKA) and Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) - equipped a group of five motivated scholars to…

This is a practical tool for those involved in commissioning or building a new dialysis unit, or retrofitting an existing unit, to help with including sustainable features in the design. Developed…

A step-by-step guide to providing quality kidney care while mitigating the impact of climate change and fostering responsible resource use.

These recommendations to support healthcare providers working in the renal field were developed to raise awareness of the importance of evaluation of the current situation in their renal units as a…

This insightful and timely UKKA webinar, hosted by Shazia Adalat and Suren Kanagasundaram, looks into the latest plans and developments across the kidney care community to help drive and promote…

This project was completed as part of Sustainable Kidney Care Scholar programme funded by the UK Kidney Association (UKKA).Setting/Patient Group: Dialysis UnitIssue to be addressed:Acid used for…

LINK:Greener Leader Blog Series: Exploring our circles of influence as climate leaders. By Eleanor Murray – The official blog of BMJ Leader Minimising the impacts of climate change is a huge…

This is a free online carbon footprint calculator for use in in-centre haemodialysis units. It measures your overall footprint and carbon intensity per patient session, and identifies the greenhouse…

You can find 3 newly created factsheets for patients wanting to eat a plant based diet with CKD stage 1-5 (not having dialysis), dialysis and transplant in the resources section of the Plant-based…

This review looks at how a 20-year-old male grew Rhodotorula muciliginosa (fungal infection) from his peritoneal dialysis fluid on three separate occasions. Peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis…