Advanced Kidney Care - maximising choice, optimising care Symposium 2025
Fetal Medicine Research Institute, London
Course summary
Join us for a multidisciplinary day reviewing developments in Advanced Kidney Care. After a successful launch in 2024 this one-day face-to-face symposium returns in 2025 and will be relevant to all healthcare professionals involved in this vital phase of kidney care.
Bookings are now full - please join the waiting list by emailing cnuteducation@kcl.ac.uk
Provisional Programme
| Time | Session | Speakers / Chairs |
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Coffee & Registration | |
| 09:30 – 09:35 | Welcome and Housekeeping | |
| 09:35 – 11:00 | Session chairs | Eleri Wood + Jennifer Joslin |
| 09:35 – 09:55 | What is new in Transform AKC? | Rosie Donne - Consultant in Renal Medicine at Salford Royal Foundation Trust, and the lead for the Advanced Kidney Care Service |
| 09:55 – 10:15 | Updates from other AKCC research studies | Hugh Leonard – SpR Fellow AKCC transform programme |
| 10:15 - 10:25 | Joint Q&A | Rosie Donne/Hugh Leonard |
| 10.25 – 10:35 | Patient Perspective: “What I wish I had known before” - Crash lander and Transplantation | Patient A |
| 10.35 – 11.05 | Crash landing and beyond - systems, cultures and solutions | Andi Cove-Smith – Nephrologist, Barts Health NHS Trust, Gladys Laurente (CNS), Noor-a-sehar Chughtai (Physician Associate) |
| 11.05 –11.25 | Coffee break and networking | |
| 11:20 – 13.10 | Session chairs | Rochelle Blacklock + Lisa Ancliffe |
| 11.25 – 11.55 | Peritoneal dialysis pathway, patient assessment preparation and catheter placement | David Lewis - Consultant Nephrologist, Salford Royal Hospital |
| 11.55 – 12.45 | Complex clinical cases workshop 3 x cases | Group Discussion |
| 12.45 – 13.15 | The role of a geriatrician in AKC – data, assessment and care | Melanie Dani – Consultant Geriatrician, Imperial College Healthcare Trust |
| 13.15 – 14.05 | Lunch break and networking | |
| 14:05 – 15:15 | Session chairs | Rosie Donne + Sharon Frame |
| 14:05 – 14:15 | Patient Perspective: “What I wish I had known before” – crash landing and Transplantation | Patient B |
| 14.15 – 14.45 | The role of an Occupational Therapist in AKC | Lisa Ancliffe - Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist, The Royal Free Hospital |
| 14.45 – 15.15 | Psychological support for patients entering AKC; The mental health overlap in kidney patients | Amy Waugh – Renal Clinical Psychologist, Salford |
| 15.15 – 15.35 | Coffee break and networking | |
| 15.35 – 17.25 | Session chairs | Katie Vinen + Heather Brown |
| 15.35 – 16.05 | Improving access to pre-emptive transplantation through the AKCC | Richard Powell, Plymouth, Consultant Nephrologist (virtual presentation) |
| 16.05 – 16.35 | Transplant work up with complex medical conditions | Gareth Jones, Consultant Nephrologist, Royal Free |
| 16.35 – 17.25 | Transplant work up cases workshop 3 x cases | Group Discussion |
| 17.25 – 17.30 | Closing | Katie Vinen |
Download the provisional programme
Session Topics
By the end of the symposium, you will have learnt about:
- Advanced Kidney Care research updates
- What’s new in Transform AKC
- Enabling home renal replacement treatments
- Improving outcomes for ‘crash landers’
- Transplant First: achieving the goal
- Transplant work-up with complex medical conditions
- The role of a Geriatrician in Advanced Kidney Care
- Psychological support for patients entering Advanced Kidney Care
- Occupational Therapy in Advanced Kidney Care
- Interactive complex clinical cases
Endorsements
The London Kidney Network
The London Kidney Network is a collaborative initiative enhancing kidney care across London and Surrey through partnerships that improve patient outcomes and streamline services. Focused on innovation and equity, it supports quality improvements in areas like dialysis, transplantation, and chronic kidney disease prevention.
The UK Kidney Association
The UK Kidney Association is a professional body for the UK kidney community that represents people working in clinical renal care, treating and caring for people with kidney disease, those working in research, or related sciences and fields and all allied healthcare professionals as members.
Association of Nephrology Nurses
ANN UK is a non-profit making membership organisation that aims to provide support for registered and non-registered nurses through education, research, evidence-based practice and by setting national standards for nurses working in kidney care.
ERA
“ERA‘s endorsement is for the promotion of education in general, therefore the specific content of the event/course is the responsibility of the organiser”
ERA’s aim is to reduce the burden of kidney disease by supporting basic and clinical research in the fields of clinical nephrology, dialysis, and renal transplantation. ERA organises annual congresses and supports fellowships, and CME courses.
ERA publishes two official leading nephrology journals in Europe: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation and Clinical Kidney Journal (open access).
Join us for the 62nd ERA Congress on June 4-7, 2025
CPD Accreditation
'Advanced Kidney Care Symposium' is subject to be approved by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom for 6 category 1 (external) CPD credit(s).
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) provides accreditation as a supportive process of evaluating the quality of clinical services and promotes quality improvement through highlighting areas of best practice and areas for change, encouraging the continued development of the clinical service.
Sponsors
We would like to extend our appreciation to the following sponsors who have supported this meeting through a payment to exhibit via a stand. The sponsors are not involved in any other aspect of this meeting.
Stanningley Pharma
Stanningley Pharma is a privately owned British healthcare company committed to developing products which improve the quality of life for patients in the context of a modernising NHS. The company’s primary interest is the provision of products for people with chronic kidney failure, but it also provides products in other specialist therapeutic areas within hospital medicine.
More information about Stanningley Pharma can be found on their website.
Medice UK
All of us at MEDICE are passionate about bringing innovative healthcare solutions to patients, carers, and clinicians across the UK. Our strong family roots have enabled us to be where we are today, and we couldn’t be prouder of everything we have achieved. Our vision inspires every one of us, and our collective expertise drives us forward, as we continue to make our vision come alive.
More information about Medice UK can be found on their website.
CSL Vifor
CSL Vifor is a global leader in iron deficiency and nephrology and is committed to launching the next generation of therapies to truly address the full spectrum of kidney disease, with a focus on dialysis and rare disease. CSL Vifor strives to help patients around the world with severe and chronic diseases lead better, healthier lives.
Job number: UK-NP-2300052 Date of prep: July 2023
More information about CSL Vifor can be found on their website
Chiesi
Chiesi Farmaceutici is an international research-oriented biopharmaceuticals group with over 85 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical sector. The company’s mission is to improve people’s quality of life and act responsibly towards both the community and the environment. Chiesi Limited is headquartered in Manchester employing over 400 people.
At this event
Consultant Nephrologist
Consultant in Renal Medicine at Salford Royal Foundation Trust
Locum Consultant Nephrologist, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust
Clinical Lead Dietitian (Renal and Bariatric Surgery)
Senior Renal Physiotherapist
Consultant Nephrologist
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