Kidney Health for All – Preparing for the unexpected, supporting the vulnerable!

Abstract

How will we do this with dialysis in the UK?The COVID pandemic was an unexpected stressor which heightened our professional awareness of vulnerability in our patients. It also revealed weaknesses in our dialysis care process. These vulnerabilities pre-existed the crisis and persist after it. We need to address health inequity as we recover and redesign dialysis care. I will discuss the literature on the effect of ethnicity, educational level, health literacy and socioeconomic status in the UK