Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on the renal services transformation programme.
The recommendations from the Getting It Right First Time speciality report on renal medicine, published in September 2021, have been accepted and are being implemented by the Renal Services Transformation Programme (RSTP). The RSTP has appointed five expert renal clinical leads and established four clinical workstreams improving access, identifying best practice and developing solutions in chronic kidney disease (CKD), acute kidney injury, dialysis and transplants.
NHS England and NHS Improvement have established 11 renal clinical networks which are finalising workplans and determining local priorities identified nationally through the Programme. Guidelines have been produced in collaboration with NHS England and NHS Improvement’s National Outpatients Transformation Programme focusing on specialist advice in renal services and an approach to implement personalised care follow up for CKD and transplant patients.