Happy New Year!Thank you to all who worked so hard over the holiday period and who continue to work now to keep our patients safe. Below is a round-up of the latest news on COVID-19 from the professional community. Overall pictureThe situation remains challenging across the UK with busy workloads...

A landmark paper paving the way for NHS care to be improved for patients with post-hospitalisation acute kidney injury (AKI) has been published by the UK Renal Registry (UKRR) in collaboration with the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme.Centre variation in mortality following post...

It is with great regret that we have been forced to postpone the residential Advanced Nephrology Course due to take place at Corpus Christi in Oxford January 4-8th 2022, due to the rapidly emerging coronavirus Omicron surge.We feel that it is not tenable and irresponsible to organise a 4-day...

Thank you to everybody for the work that you are doing, these are incredibly tough times and the last 20 months have been unparalleled in our careers as health care professionals. What is coming in the next few months may be even more challenging, therefore the UKKA and renal community COVID-19...

The UK Renal Registry has been mandated by the Clinical Reference Group (CRG) and NHS England to collect patient identifiers from renal centres in England. The information will be used for linkage with the COVID-19 database at NHS Digital for regular reporting of COVID-19 infections and vaccinations...

Kidney Beam, the platform helping kidney patients’ wellbeing through live, online and on-demand exercise classes and programmes, is being bolstered by support across the kidney community.In an unprecedented move, the UK Kidney Association is joining forces with Kidney Research UK, Kidney Care UK and...

Thank you to everybody for the work that you are doing, these are incredibly tough times and the last 20 months have been unparalleled in our careers as health care professionals. What is coming in the next few months may be even more challenging, therefore the UKKA and renal community COVID-19...

There continues to be uncertainty around the new Omicron COVID-19 variant, but the spread of the variant is increasing rapidly throughout the UK and will soon become the dominant variant.There is increasing evidence that people with kidney disease who have had two vaccines are at substantially...

Here at the UK Renal Registry (UKRR), we recognise that a lot of people have contributed to the work that we do, freely giving their own time and with very little direct recognition.In 2013, a new award was created, the ‘Terry Feest’ award, in recognition of the contribution made by Terry, not only...

Appointed in 1981, Dr Dwomoa (Jo) Adu, Consultant Nephrologist, gives an overview of his career highlights