Current Projects
We are currently working on the following projects aligned with the following three focus areas:
1) Advocacy, education and practical support to address patient factors that inhibit the uptake of home dialysis by Australians with chronic kidney disease.
We aim to develop and implement/promote an advocacy-driven approach to address one or more of the patient factors previously found to inhibit the uptake of home dialysis by Australians and New Zealanders with CKD.
Our current focus is:
We aim to develop and implement/promote an advocacy-driven approach to address one or more of the patient factors previously found to inhibit the uptake of home dialysis by Australians and New Zealanders with CKD.
Our current focus is:
- Early MDT Pathway Engagement
- THN Patient Resource/Sharing Platform
- Promotion and Marketing THN
- Increasing awareness and importance of home dialysis therapy
- Establishing a Forum and Network group for the Home unit's PD to increase work with HHD and target finance.
- Target State Government
- Look at the ANZDATA and the new nephrologist.
- Continue development of resources for patients.
- Financial equitability across the states.
- Compliance of Patient Focus Groups
- Undertaking a COVID-19 Survey to see the impact of PD during the pandemic
- Keeping patients and healthcare professionals up to date with our Newsletter
- An exciting new addition to our resources for people living with Kidney Disease – Healthy recipes and videos
- New and improved Model of Care to support dialysis at home
2) Improved awareness, knowledge and education about home dialysis for healthcare professionals
We aim to identify, develop and implement/ promote an educational approach that builds on or compliments previous successful activities to extend our ability to address gaps in multidisciplinary healthcare professional understanding about home dialysis, empowering them with knowledge such that they are better positioned to help educate Australians and New Zealanders with chronic kidney disease about home dialysis.
We aim to identify, develop and implement/ promote an educational approach that builds on or compliments previous successful activities to extend our ability to address gaps in multidisciplinary healthcare professional understanding about home dialysis, empowering them with knowledge such that they are better positioned to help educate Australians and New Zealanders with chronic kidney disease about home dialysis.
3) Access to Allied Health
A fresh direction that explores how allied health approaches can strengthen home dialysis utilisation through development of patient educational tool, awareness of medicines/safety advice and mental/psychosocial health.
A fresh direction that explores how allied health approaches can strengthen home dialysis utilisation through development of patient educational tool, awareness of medicines/safety advice and mental/psychosocial health.
