Advanced Kidney Care - maximising choice, optimising care Symposium 2026
Fetal Medicine Research Institute, London
Course summary
Join us for a multidisciplinary day reviewing developments in Advanced Kidney Care. In 2026 this one-day face-to-face symposium returns with an exciting schedule relevant to all healthcare professionals involved in this vital phase of kidney care.
Bookings are now open, or for more information please email ctukeducation@kcl.ac.uk.
Provisional Programme
| Time | Session |
|
To 0900 |
Registration |
|
0900-0905 |
Welcome |
|
0905-0935 |
Who’s Being Left Behind? Health Literacy and Digital Access in Kidney Care |
|
0935-1005 |
Balancing Risk and Benefit: Transplantation in Later Life |
|
1005-1035 |
From Choice to Long-Term Success: Optimising Home HD |
|
1035-1050 |
Patient story 1 – What I wish I had known before reaching Advanced Kidney Care |
|
BREAK |
|
|
1115-1205 |
BREAK OUT GROUPS: The routine to the extraordinary: case studies of symptom control and crisis management in supportive care |
|
1210-1240 |
Right Access, Right Time: |
|
1240-1310 |
Not Too Early, Not Too Late: Timing, Choice and Communication when starting Kidney Replacement Therapy |
|
LUNCH |
|
|
1405-1435 |
Caring for Patients With Severe Mental Illness: An MDT Challenge in AKC |
|
1435-1515 |
Complex Patients, Complex Decisions: Case studies of best interest decisions in AKC |
|
1515-1530 |
Patient story 2 |
|
BREAK |
|
|
1550-1620 |
Shaping the Future of Advanced Kidney Care: Transform AKC Update |
|
1620-1650 |
Supporting Health at Higher Body Weights Across the AKC Pathway |
|
1650-1720 |
Medicines in AKC: Too Many Pills, Too Little Understanding? |
|
1720 |
Review and close |
Download the provisional programme
Session Topics
By the end of the symposium, you will have learnt about:
- Planning for the right access at the right time
- When to start renal replacement therapy
- Health literacy and digital access in Advanced Kidney Care
- Optimising home haemodialysis
- Caring for advanced kidney care patients with severe mental illness
- Complex patients, complex decisions: best interests in Advanced Kidney Care
- Medication in Advanced Kidney Care
- Supporting health at higher body weight across the Advanced Kidney Care pathway
- Transplantation in later life
- Transform AKC update
At this event
Consultant Nephrologist
Consultant in Renal Medicine at Salford Royal Foundation Trust
Locum Consultant Nephrologist, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust
Senior Renal Physiotherapist
Consultant Nephrologist
Kidney Nurse Consultant
Search for another event