Shared HD Care: engage, enthuse and empower your patients

Shared haemodialysis care engages patients as active partners in their treatment, enabling them to participate in some or all of their dialysis care.

Patients say that when they are involved it gives them control, makes them feel more confident, and helps with self esteem.

Giving patients the opportunity to participate in their own care

From choosing some of the simpler tasks such as measuring their own blood pressure, to the more complex skills such as programming their machines, the essence of shared care is involvement at a level that suits the individual.

Shared HD Care: engaging patients in their dialysis care

With the reassurance of continued support, whether they participate or not, it is a comfortable way of learning and discovering what they are capable of.

Find out more about Shared HD Care

  • Events

    Learn more and register for a Shared HD Care course, or connect with other healthcare professionals at one of our Network Forums.

  • Skills videos

    These videos were created to give patients and nurses a generic view of dialysis tasks that can be carried out by the patient or supported with shared care.

  • Resources

    We have collected a range of resources, both created during the Shared Care scaling up project and sourced from wider external organisations and partners. All content here is freely available for download, sharing and editing.

RCN accredited CPD

Shared HD Care Course

The new two day virtual course is for pre booked teams from haemodialysis units wishing to initiate or rejuvenate their shared haemodialysis care programmes. Your team will form a cohort with two or three other teams during this highly interactive training interspersed with self-directed learning.
Find out more about the Shared HD Care course

  • Celebrating Shared Haemodialysis Care

    We are proud to promote success stories, awards, and other achievements from our colleagues practising Shared HD Care in units around the UK.

  • Healthcare practitioner education

    Complement your learning with this article hub, which replicates key elements of the course like hearing directly from patients and centres about Shared HD Care.

  • Stories

    Inspiring Shared HD Care stories from patients and their families and healthcare staff.