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NKF 25th Anniversary Conference
Supported by
Fresenius
Medical Care
| A SPECIAL THANKS TO FRESENIUS FOR SUPPORTING THE NKF |
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| The the Fresenius team, with NKF chairman Gordon Nicholas. It is their support of the Conference that has helped to make Fresenius a household name amongst kidney patients. |
Annual
Patient's Conference 2003 -
Aiming for Gold
Hilton Hotel, Blackpool, 26th - 28th September 2003
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More than 400 people attended the 25th anniversary conference whose theme was Aiming for Gold. The idea of patients giving their views, initiated last year, has proved popular and was repeated.
Gordon Nicholas read out the formalities for the conference before the introduction of the Mayor of Blackpool Lillian Henderson who officially opened the conference.
Conference 2003 - Index
 Chairman's
opening address and summary of Friday evening workshop on
Renal Commissioning led by Dr Roger Greenwood Gordon Nicholas read out the formalities for the conference before the introduction of the Mayor of Blackpool Lillian Henderson who officially opened the conference. |
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| Professor Michael Nicholson
- Laparoscopic Nephrectomy Michael Nicholson is a consultant surgeon and Professor of Transplant Surgery at the University of Leicester. He is also a member of the Council of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and chairman of the clinical trials committee of the British Transplantation Society. In 1998 Professor Nicholson and colleagues in Leicester introduced laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy into surgical practice in the UK. |
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| Jane Verity - Modernising Renal
Services Jane Verity has worked in health administration for over 20 years. In 1999 Jane took on a wide remit that included renal,liver and general medical services. With the announcement of the Renal National Service Framework her time has been dedicated to leading the renal NSF policy team. |
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| Ian Mathie - Patient Presentation
1 My Dog Likes Bananas - The renal diet project Ian called on patients to contribute to an important project. The aim is to create a relevant resource for patients that addresses the issues inherent in renal diets that are faced by most patients. |
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| Professor Richard Gardner -
What does the future hold? Richard Gardner obtained a First Class degree in physiology at Cambridge in 1966, followed by a PhD under the supervision of Robert Edwards, who with Patrick Steptoe developed human in vitro fertilisation. In 1978 he became Henry Dale Research Professor of the Royal Society in Oxford University and since 2000 he has held the position of Chair of the Royal Society working group on stem cells and therapeutic cloning. |
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| Jim Warham - Patient Presentation
2 NKF Young Persons Group Progress A year after the launch of the NKF Young Persons Group, it now has almost 100 members covering a large area of the UK. |
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| David Talbot - Non-Heart Beating
Donors David Talbot graduated from the University of Newcastle up Tyne with an MBBS in 1982. He gained an MD in 1988 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1989. His present appointment is that of consultant hepatobiliary and transplant surgeon at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle,a position he has held since 1995. |
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| Sue Lyon - Patient Presentation
3 Having kidney failure has some good points and some bad points, Sue Lyon told the conference delegates. |
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| Jacqueline Campbell - Peritoneal
Dialysis - Past, Present and Future Jacqueline Campbell qualified as a nurse from the North Lothian College of Nursing and Midwifery in 1989. Nine years ago she became interested in renal nursing, working at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before moving to Baxter Healthcare as peritoneal dialysis clinical specialist. |
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| Dr Nick Richards - Public Private
Partnerships for Satellite Dialysis Dr Richards trained at St Bartholomews Hospital, London,and worked in research at St Thomas Hospital before moving to Birmingham in 1989, where he is divisional director and consultant nephrologist at the University Hospital. The renal service at the hospital is one of the largest in the UK, caring for about 1000 dialysis patients and operating five satellite units in partnership with Fresenius Medical Care. |
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| Austin Donohoe - Patient Presentation
4 Patients need to take responsibility for their own health care, to understand their own bodies, the illness, the options and their medicines, said Austin Donohoe. |
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| Maddi Pipes - Pre-dialysis
- The Benefits Maddi Pipes is a pre-dialysis nurse specialist at the Royal Preston Hospital. Her involvement in renal nursing started in 1983 at Glan Clwyd Hospital in North Wales. She gained experience later in haemodialysis and transplantation at Hope Hospital and Manchester Royal Infirmary, and also worked for three years as an industrial occupational health nurse. She joined the renal team at Royal Preston in 1990. |
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Time Afternoon Session |
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| Fred Tring - Closing Speech Past Chairman and past President of the NKF. |
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Favourable response to conferenceThe initial response to the conference,based on some 80 questionnaires returned,appears to be favourable. The patient speakers have proved popular, with 45 per cent marking them as excellent and 49 per cent as good. A total of 87 per cent of respondents thought that the length of the patient sessions was about right. Accommodation, food and after-dinner entertainment all scored in the excellent category, and 84 per cent indicated a preference for the same type of after-dinner entertainment in future. The majority of the presentations have been well received, with scores in the excellent to good category, but a couple were marked lower. A total of 96 per cent said they were willing to return to the Hilton Hotel in Blackpool again. Questioned about the type of venue they wanted, 46 per cent preferred a 4*hotel, 27 per cent a 3* hotel, 15 per cent a university and 12 per cent a holiday camp. Eighty-two per cent of delegates received assistance from their KPAs. The status of people attending the conference was:
WorkshopsTwo workshops were held on Sunday morning,one by members of the Young Persons Group and the other by Freedom Apartments &Travel on holidays for kidney patients. One issue that emerged was the difficulty in arranging holiday dialysis in the UK. |
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