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Question: Ken Tupling, NKF executive, and
representative to the BTS Ethics Committee
I did raise this particular point at our meeting two months ago
and the BTS Committee agreed to look at it.
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Question: John Sager, Lancashire
& South KPA.
I would just like to ask Dr Richards about the satellite units.
When you first started having them you put them all on business
parks and the later ones you said you would put into hospitals.
Was there a reason for that, and do you think there is any benefit
from it?
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Dr Richards Reply: The reason
the last two have gone on to hospital sites is just because of
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availability of the site more than anything else. So I do not think
there is any advantage in having dialysis units in hospitals at
all. If we can dialyse people at home without being in hospital,
there is no reason you can't dialysise them in a business park,
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Question: David Benoliel, Oxford KPA.
Question to Dr Richards about the quality systems. You mentioned
that quality assurance systems have been introduced into the satellite
units. Have you extended that same system into your own base unit
in the hospital?
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Reply Dr Richards: Yes we have.
We suddenly realised that was something we were not doing in the hospital,
and so we introduced that back into the hospital, having seen the
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Question: Gemma Benoliel, Oxford KPA.
To Jackie Campbell
You suggested I think in your talk that APD is superior to CAPD.
If that is so, why isn't everyone on APD?
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Reply Jackie Campbell: I'm sorry,
I did not mean to give the impression that APD was superior to CAPD.
APD is more flexible, and gives better treatment to some patients.
CAPD is still more suitable to the low transporters group patients. |
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Question: Chris Roberts, Lister Kidney
Foundation.
My partner and I are of the opinion that this is quite a valid
question; I am not quite sure who to address this to though. How
much work is going on into prevention and education into keeping
healthy kidneys, bearing in mind that statistically it was mentioned
earlier that there are more and more patients needing dialysis?
I do feel that maybe that perhaps a survey. I know there a number
of reasons, diet being one of them, increase in population being
another, but maybe it may be useful to do a survey at some stage?
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Reply: Just to say there is
quite a lot of work beginning. |