8TH ANNUAL U.K HOME THERAPIES CONFERENCE
LOWRY HOTEL
MANCHESTER
24/25 SEPTEMBER 2015
Program Overview
The Eighth UK Annual conference of Home Dialysis is aimed at sharing new
insights and best practice in home dialysis therapies involving all stakeholders
from multidisciplinary clinical staff to academia and the industry.
We have an exciting 2 day programme which will provide a detailed overview
of the current practices, new concepts in care delivery, the fundamentals,
challenges and controversies essential to successfully develop and maintain an
effective home dialysis program both for new, as well as expanding programs.
The sessions will also allow interactive discussion with leading international
experts in the field. In addition, the exhibition will showcase the latest and
emerging therapy developments in the technology products and services.
This program is intended for clinicians, nurses, fellows, administrators, policy
makers, researchers and other members of the healthcare team providing
dialysis care, patients and the dialysis industry.
FULL PROGRAMME BELOW
8th UK Annual Conference on Home Dialysis
24th & 25th September 2015
Venue: The Lowry, Manchester
Day 1 - Thursday 24th September
10-12.30 Pre- Meeting : Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury (REMEC)
10.00
10.05
10.30
10.55
11.20
11.40
12.00
12.30
Chair & Introduction : Mick Kumwenda, Leonard Ebah
Epidemiology of AKI, RRT and Renal recovery – What do we know ? Leonard Ebah (Manchester)
Acute Dialysis therapies – modalities and prescribing
Michael Schultz (Liverpool)
Is there a Role of PD in AKI ?
David Lewis (Salford) TBC
AKI Care model – Nursing challenges
P. Hanumapura (Manchester)
Pharmacological vigilance in advanced AKI
Liz Lamerton (Salford)
Regional AKI model in Wales – service delivery and outcomes
Prof Aled Phillips (Cardiff)TBC
Close
(Conference Registration and Lunch is FREE for delegates attending REMEC session)
12.30-1.30 pm
Conference Registration, Lunch & Refreshments
1330 Introduction/Themes
Prof Ken Farrington
1335 Changing Times in the NHS – Policy Impact on Dialysis Provision Richard Fluck (NHSE)
1400 Dialysis Patient Perspectives : Choice, Participation and Dignity
Chair : Fiona Loud
14.00 My Dialysis
14.20 My Dignity means : Results from a patient led event
14.40 Transforming Project (NHSE & UKRR)
Madeleine Warren (London)
Nicola Heron (Sheffield)
TBC
1505-1545 Refreshments & Exhibition
1545 What works ? Care Models in Action
Chair : Clara Day
1545 Shared decision making & growing Home therapies
Chris Goldsmith(Aintree) TBC
1605 Self Care Incentre HD -care models, long term benefits &
outcomes
Sandip Mitra (Manchester)
16.25 Sustaining HD at Home (5 yr experience and clinical outcomes) Natalie Borman (Portsmouth)
1700 Keynote Lectures : Chair Prof Ken Farrington
1700 : Achieving volume control and preserving residual renal function in PD : 2 impossible targets?
Prof Achim Jorres (Germany)
(Director Department of Nephrology and Head, Peritoneal Dialysis Research Group,
Charite University Hospital-Humboldt-University, Berlin)
1735 :
Optimal Dialysis care utilising Home Haemodialysis
Prof Robert Lockridge (USA)
(Medical Director, UVA-Lynchburg Dialysis Facility and
Clinical Associate Professor of internal Medicine, University of Virginia)
18.30 – 19.30 Drinks, Canapés & Reception
20.00 Conference Dinner (Guest Speaker : Dr Robert Lewis)
Day 2 Friday September 25th 2015, The Lowry Hotel
8.30 Breakfast with vegetarian options
9.00 – 11.15 Integrated Session : Improving Dialysis Practice and Outcomes
Chair : Cormac Breen, Helen Hurst
A series of short presentations delivered by multidisciplinary experts
9.05
9.20
9.35
9.50
10.05
10.20
10.35
10.50
Enhancing Home HD – What can patients teach us ? - W Withers
Preventing dropout in PD – G Endall
Approach to dysfunctional catheters in PD – Nursing considerations - V Briggs
Shared Care in centre dialysis : What works ? - tbc
Anaemia and Bone management in Home dialysis – what’s different ? - tbc
Testing times – Water for Dialysis (Dos and Donts) - G Boyle
Withdrawal of Home Dialysis – indications and challenges - C Doyle
Creative Workforce planning in Home dialysis - C Rhodes
11.20 -11.50 Coffee & Refreshments /Exhibition
11.50-13.00 Young Adult Transition in Dialysis : Chair Daljit Hothi
11.50 "It's time to transfer your care to adults ...."
- In centre Dialysis ; Home Dialysis
Patient Perspectives
11.10 Transitioning dialysis patients: myth or reality
Dr Arvind Nagra
(Southampton)
12.30 Caring for the Young adult - Medical & non-medical challenges
Dr Tina Chrysochou (Salford)
12.45 Question & Answer: What is the best model for transition?
13.00 – 14.10
Lunch & Exhibition
1410 Debate : “Frequent Haemodialysis should be the Norm”
Chair Prof Alastair Hutchison
For : Warren Pickering (Northampton)
Against : Neil Ashman (London)
(Audience participation with Voting Pads)
1510 – 1600
New Insights in Home Dialysis
Chair : Sandip Mitra, Roger Greenwood
1510 PD peritonitis and its prevention
Prof Achim Jorres (Germany)
1535 New developments in HHD
Prof Robert Lockridge (USA)
1600 Close
Organising Faculty :Sandip Mitra, Clara Day, Cormac Breen, Alastair Hutchison,
Roger
Greenwood,
Richard Fluck with
& Kenaudience
FarringtonQ & A
Summary
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from Roundtables