🚨📢 NEW PAPER: Exploring patient activation and psychological coping strategies to manage challenging circumstances in people with kidney disease Dr Thomas Wilkinson Naeema Patel Ceri Jones Alice C Smith Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team SAPPHIRE research UoL Population Health Sciences link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📢 Calling participants aged 18-85 living with multiple health conditions or healthcare professionals experienced in this field! #BePartofResearch, share your experiences and contribute to our #PhD study. ✉️ Email: [email protected] Prof Kamlesh Khunti #MLTC Ellen Hopwood

Are you a woman living with kidney disease? Do you have children, are you planning to have children, or are you yet to decide? This is for you! Contact Leah : [email protected] Please share widely, we are so looking forward to meeting you!

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Proud of a fabulous presentation by Courtney Lightfoot on My Kidneys & Me dietary resources 🤩#UKKW2024

Sherna presenting on the association between cardiovascular structure and function and mortality in people receiving dialysis #UKKW2024

Well that’s pretty good! Congrats @RBillany - lots of hard work has gone into this, so very well deserved! Massive thanks to Kidney Research UK for funding the study University of Leicester #UKKW24

Dr Thomas Wilkinson highlighting the high symptom burden in kidney disease and importance of symptom science approach #UKWW2024

Very proud of Naeema Patel our fantastic PhD student presenting some of her work on stakeholder views on the importance of self-management in CKD. Excellent work that will help us revise My Kidneys & Me for implementation testing #UKKW2024

Had a fantastic time at #UKKW2024 conference in Edinburgh! There were so many insightful sessions and research showcasing incredible work across the UK aiming to improve kidney care. I was honoured to present some of my PhD work! Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team UoL Population Health Sciences SAPPHIRE research

Starting a new venture. Please support by: Following SFK Education on LinkedIn Repost to spread the message Forward specifically to parents of children in Leicester aged between 9-16 Forward specifically to teachers in Leicester possibly interested in additional work

Presenting the results of SMILE-K trial evaluating the effects of My Kidneys & Me (a digital health intervention to support self-management in people with CKD) at #RCGPAC

Had a fantastic time at the #RCGPAC #RCGPAC24 in Liverpool! Learned so much about cutting-edge research and work in primary care. Also had the oppurtunity to present my PhD work to help us adapt My Kidneys & Me and conduct implementation trials in practice

New paper published in PlOS One by Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team (and my first, first author publication! 🎉) "The association of micro and macro worries with psychological distress in people living with chronic kidney disease during the COVID-19 pandemic" doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Naeema Patel presenting findings from her PhD about healthcare staff's perspectives of patient self-management in CKD at #ASN24 #KidneyWk Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team SAPPHIRE research UoL Population Health Sciences Research at Leicester's Hospitals NIHR Leicester BRC and CRF

Naeema Patel presenting her work on priority outcomes for self-management in CKD at #ASN24 #KidneyWk Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team SAPPHIRE research UoL Population Health Sciences Uni of Leicester Cardiovascular Sciences Research at Leicester's Hospitals NIHR Leicester BRC and CRF

Had a fantastic few days in sunny San Diego at the #ASN24 #KidneyWk. It was an honour to present two posters on my PhD work on stakeholder self-managment perspective and outcomes in kidney disease. So many amazing posters and talks shared by fellow researchers and clinicians!

📍Horseshoe Bend, Arizona

Want to improve the implementation of NICE CKD guidelines? Matt Graham-Brown James Burton & Leicester Kidney Lifestyle Team need your help on this QI project. Take their short survey to support research improving guideline-based care ⬇️ 📝 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leicester/ni…

📢 Help shape health research! Are you aged 18-80 and from a South Asian or African/Caribbean background with long-term health conditions? We want to hear from you! Share your experiences and join our PhD research. 📧 Contact: [email protected] Ash Routen Centre for Ethnic Health Research