Minimal care

Posted by Garry on
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Hi All,

Many years ago we used to have a minimal care area where, as the name suggests, patients would come to dialyse themselves at pre-arranged time slots with minimal staffing input.  It worked well for those who wanted the independence or slightly more flexibility than dialysing in centre offered.  Ours happened to be on the hospital site but I remember in the late 1980s another  hospital having one in a local residential street.

Patients who could not accommodate dialysis at home (or preferred not to) also made use of the unit.
I'm unsure how easy it would be nowadays to set something up like this offsite.  Do any other units off this dialysis option?

Any views, from those with and without, on the advantages/disadvantages of such a set up and relevance for the future of dialysis?

Cheers