Kidney Diseases: Dialysis Machines

(asked on 25th October 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that Integrated Care Systems support renal centres to meet the recommendation set out within the GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report for Renal Medicine to achieve a minimum prevalent rate of home dialysis of 20% within 12 months of that report’s publication.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 9th November 2021

Of the 51 renal units within England, 16 units are supporting 20% or more of their patients to receive dialysis treatment at home. A further 16 units are providing home therapies to between 15% and 19% of their patients.

There are currently no plans to ask Integrated Care Systems to specifically include chronic kidney disease in their plans. However, both Integrated Care Boards’ and Integrated Care Partnerships’ plans and strategies should consider the health needs of the population they serve, including people with chronic kidney disease.

NHS England and Improvement has recently implemented 11 regional clinical networks to work closely with Integrated Care Systems to support the achievement of a minimum prevalent rate of home dialysis of 20 per cent, as outlined by the Renal Services Transformation Programme and the recently published Getting it Right First Time (GiRFT) report.

The GiRFT report makes an important recommendation that a key enabler of the dialysis programme will be the recruitment and training of a competent renal services workforce and so each of the networks will formulate a workforce plan to ensure delivery of the various standards.

Reticulating Splines