East of England Renal Network Day
The East of England 4th Annual Renal Network Day
"Homeward bound: hospital to community, analogue to digital, illness to prevention"
Thursday 27th November 2025.
This is a face to face day to be held at: The Nucleus, Chesterford Research Park, Little Chesterford, Saffron Walden, CB10 1TS.
Over the last 12months, the EoE Renal network has focussed on understanding the demand growth of CKD and RRT, dialysis capacity, dialysis occupancy measures and system flows.
In line with the governments 3 shifts, hospital to home, analogue to digital and illness to prevention, this year's network day will have a focus on these themes. We know CKD is on the increase and early identification in primary care continues to be a challenge; in-centre dialysis capacity continues to rise much faster than current capacity; home therapy has stalled and EoE region is only achieving 12% of the national ambition of 20% of patients receiving home based therapies; and assessment for eligibility for kidney transplantation needs to start early.
Agenda-
09:15 | Registration |
09.45 - 10.00 | Welcome – TBC Chair |
10.00 -10.10 | Patient Story -TBC |
10.10 - 10.30
| Home dialysis in an aging population Professor Edwina Brown Professor of Renal Medicine, Imperial College London Consultant Nephrologist, Imperial College Renal & Transplant Centre |
10.30 - 10.50
| Home Therapies NNKC Dr Matt Todd , Consultant Nephrologist NNKC & Angela Cardoso, Renal Therapies Senior Sister |
10.50 - 11.10
| Analogue to Digital, How Patient Knows Best is improving patient knowledge and experience Darryl , National Renal Programme Manager, Varsha Modhwadia- Patient Knows Best |
11:10 – 11:40 | Refreshment and comfort break (30 minutes) |
11.40-11.55
| Equity of Access to the Transplant Waiting List. Dr Rebecca Roberts, Public Health Physician, CCT in Renal Medicine |
11.55 -12.15
| Transform AKC Dr Laura Ratcliffe, Consultant Nephrologist; ENHT |
12.15 -12.30
| REACT-KID study - a cohort study of wearable technology in renal transplant assessment Mr Stephen Marsh Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery |
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch (60minutes) – |
13:30 – 14:50 Breakout room 1st round 35 min 13.30- 14.05 - 10 min each speaker & 15 min QA
10 min audience change 14.05-14.15
2nd round 2.15-2.50 30 min- 10 min each speaker & 15 min QA | Breakout Rooms (to run twice) a. Nursing- Chair- Linda Lio MSE 1. Home Haemodialysis- Natalia Storey, Home Haemodialysis Manager, ENHT 2. Challenges within home therapies, Karen Nagalingam, EoE Renal Network Nurse Lead |
b. Health Equity- Chair- Helena Baxter 1. Health Inequalities- Overview – Katie Johnson, Consultant Public Health, Health Equity Team, East of England NHSE 2. Health Literacy – Kristin Bash Consultant Public Health DHSC, EoE | |
c. Living well with renal impairment- Chair: Sarah Oakley, Director of Patient Services, Kidney Care UK 1. Psycho-social aspects of care- Richard Smith, Clinic Director, ESNFT 2. Alison Lawrence | |
d. Improving Dialysis outcomes- Chair Gowrie Ba 1. Peritonitis toolkit- Siva 2. Designing new devices for extracorporeal renal replacement therapy (HD)- Gerald Glancey, ESNEFT | |
15:00– 15:30 | Refreshment and comfort break (30 minutes) |
15.30 - 15.50
| Frailty screening: a core component of older person dialysis care Dr Andy Nixon, Consultant Nephrologist Lancashire Teaching Hospitals (to confirm time slot) (virtual) |
15.50 - 16.05
| Frailty score and local outcomes Dr Sivakumar, Consultant Nephrologist; ENHT |
16.05 – 16.25
| Health Inequalities in Rural / Urban Areas Godsfavour Ilori Health Economist |
16:25 – 16:40 | Closing Notes and Evaluation |
| The East of England Renal Clinical Network Team |
Questions about this event?
Name: Jodie Deards
Email: enh-tr.eoerenalnetwork@nhs.net
Telephone: 07944159410
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