Kidney Care Sustainability Network

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 Unit Issue to be addressed: Acid…

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…

Key learning point Incremental HD is a good quality of life option for certain patients and offers high value with reduced environmental and cost impact. Setting/Patient Group: Dialysis…

Key learning point Careful consideration of all blood ordering requests and order sets in line with the concept of ‘resource stewardship’ helps improve value of care through reducing…

The UKKA Sustainability Committee needs a named staff Sustainability Champion in each UK kidney unit so that best practice ideas for more sustainable kidney care can be disseminated more…

These slides were created for the UKKW 6 June 2023 Climate Clinic in Newport, Wales. They include brief details of the UKKA Sustainability Committee's workstreams, the '12 Steps to Green a Kidney…