Area picked to pilot kidney treatment

NHS Ayrshire & Arran has been chosen as the only pilot area in Scotland for an initiative hoping to improve the way renal patients receive their treatment.

Some renal patients with end stage kidney disease need treatment in the form of haemodialysis. Having end stage kidney disease means patients’ bodies are unable to ‘ clean’ their blood of toxins.

Patients receive haemodialysis through a machine which performs this function for them. This means renal patients have to attend hospital sometimes up to three times a week for four to five hours at a time for their treatment.