tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47197591587362199812024-03-19T03:16:55.472+00:00renal tsar's blogWorking for Better Kidney CareProfessor Donal O'Donoghuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02955111530045591215noreply@blogger.comBlogger454125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719759158736219981.post-45952054035695882552013-04-04T14:37:00.000+01:002013-04-04T14:40:23.704+01:00Evenyone counts - even people with aHUS?The planning
guidance for the NHS in 2013/14 is called “Everyone Counts“. It sets out ambitions to deliver on the NHS
constitution and focuses on outcomes rather than process measures using
the five sections of the NHS outcomes framework – reducing premature mortality,
improving long term conditions, enhancing recovery from acute illness, patient
experience and Professor Donal O'Donoghuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02955111530045591215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719759158736219981.post-66576660022819818342013-04-02T15:46:00.002+01:002013-04-02T16:24:49.620+01:00 Everything's Changed; except the challenges I am reminded this morning as the new structures of the reformed NHS take up the reins of the opening sentences of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness … " . To paraphrase, Dickens concluded that, in short the period was much like any other period; An age of hyperbole. And we are not Professor Donal O'Donoghuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02955111530045591215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719759158736219981.post-63967545502464447832013-03-21T07:38:00.001+00:002013-03-21T07:38:15.549+00:00Don't let them die of AKI
This year the global kidney community made acute kidney
injury (AKI) the theme of World Kidney Day. This was a significant and
important moment in raising the profile of such a common, harmful, and
avoidable condition. At the Renal Association and forthcoming British Renal Society
meeting AKI research is prominent and the NICE guideline on AKI is now out for consultation
– what are you doing Professor Donal O'Donoghuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02955111530045591215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719759158736219981.post-8353163795059581462013-03-08T15:29:00.002+00:002013-03-08T15:41:45.970+00:00Kidney the Heart of a New CVD Strategy<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Swedish films have a reputation of being rather dark and sombre, and perhaps best epitomised by Ingmar Bergman- whose major subjects were about death, illness, faith, betrayal and insanity. This short film, “probably the best self dialysis unit in the world” is very different- very inspiring about the pioneering work undertaken in Jonkoping Sweden, showing patients undergoing hospital dialysisProfessor Donal O'Donoghuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02955111530045591215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719759158736219981.post-37283020673302769112012-07-09T10:16:00.001+01:002012-09-18T15:18:42.151+01:00Why real life needs real trials?I have often
thought that if only politicians and civil servants had a “How-to-book of
randomized policy trials” there would be a better understanding of the roles
scientific approaches can play in setting policy goals and improving care.
I need wait no
longer. The rational and power of randomized controls trials has now been laid
out in a short paper as a result of a collaboration betweenProfessor Donal O'Donoghuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02955111530045591215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4719759158736219981.post-86438088977657993912012-06-26T14:13:00.000+01:002012-07-09T10:49:33.301+01:00Facts and Figures
If you haven't yet arranged for screensavers to celebrate Transplant Week which is from Monday 9th July 2012 - Sunday 15th July 2012, look no further - NHS Blood and Transplant have made some great graphics.
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