View the #DPC2019 Diabetes Professional Care #Kidney Clinic agenda online now, including a session on ‘Diabetes medications & safe prescribing in people with CKD - practical for prescribers’. Full programme at bit.ly/DPC2019CLINICS

Hear first-hand from people with #diabetes at the #DPC2019 conference in October. Don’t miss Patricia Goden and David Marshall’s session on ‘Personal experience of #diabetes and kidney care’ held in the Diabetes Professional Care #Kidney Clinic. Full programme at bit.ly/DPC2019CLINICS

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Fact #4 #WorldKidneyDay countdown highlights how very serious #kidney failure is. There are 64,000 people being treated right now.

Note to the UK this⬇is why we need to treasure our NHS.

People living in America have to pay huge costs for their healthcare. Which is unfair and unjust.

Healthcare is a human right.

They need a system like ours, they need #MedicareForAll . NationalNursesUnited

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A renal dialysis patient’s take on Brexit theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

Renal Nurse of the Year Award submission date extended to 10th December 2019. Nominate your Renal Nurse of the Year BJN J Kidney Care BritishRenalSociety RenalAssoc British Journal of Renal Medicine Anaemia Nurse EDTNA/ERCA

NOVEMBER COVER PREVIEW: peritoneal dialysis, paediatric renal care, phosphorus in food, vitamin K2 supplementation, the ethics of adherence, patient story, dealing with personal traumas at work AND updates from the BRS, ANN UK, Kidney Research UK

Google 'betrays patient trust' with DeepMind Health move. DeepMind has previously said that it would never connect the Streams app with Google, but with the whole Streams app now a Google product, this could be compromised #google #streams #AKI
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Is it time to question obesity-based cutoffs in kidney transplantation? Recent study suggests outcomes for obese patients are not inferior to those of patients with BMI 35 and under
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Do you care for a patient who would like to share their experiences of living with kidney disease? We are looking for patients to write approximately 1000 words on their health-care journey for our Patient Story feature. Email [email protected] for details

It's been on my reading list for the last week or so, and finally read Charlie Tomson article on 'nephrotoxins' last night, sign of an excellent article makes you rethink your own approach to a problem.
So, if you read one thing today, make it this:
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We're here in Manchester for the 11th annual UK Dialysis Conference. Kicking the morning off with a session on sharing best practice in dialysis care #UKDC18

Those who have donated a kidney to a stranger show heightened empathic brain activity when they see strangers in pain bit.ly/2NkuZHG

What will your renal unit be doing to mark #OrganDonationWeek ? Let us know!

Only 1 in 12 NHS trusts have prepared for a no-deal Brexit read.bi/2wiD4lR