The North West Kidney Network (NWKN) covers five NHS trusts that are responsible for providing adult nephrology services. Dialysis services are provided by these five Trusts. Each Trust operates hub and satellite model of care. Some of the satellite units are supported by private third party providers.
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The region has two NHS trusts that are responsible for providing nephrology paediatric services.
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Manchester Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The region has two kidney transplant centres
- Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
The North West Kidney Network has a contractual agreement with the NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit (NECS), who provide analytical and business intelligence support for all core programmes within the network's portfolio.
Main roles are:-
- To provide robust data sources for the following workstreams
- Gap analysis for any information that is not readily available
- Avoid duplication of work with national colleagues
- Understand any relevant data sets available to NWKN and the quality of those data sets
- Develop a reporting suite based on identified key workstreams and available datasets
- Ad hoc analysis as and when required.
National Kidney services data is available within the National Clinical Data Repository (NCDR) to access this platform, you will need to register to access NHS England applications, click here to access the user guide on how to register for this.
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The NWKN is one of eight regional kidney networks. The North East & Yorkshire Region has two networks; one for the North East & North Cumbria and one for Yorkshire & Humberside.
If you would like to contact one of the other networks then please do let us know via our Contact Page
Please note : Large circles denote hubs & small circles denote satellite units
The North West Kidney Network (NWKN) works closely with several key stakeholders including kidney charities, public patient voice and support groups, private third party providers of dialysis, health innovation groups and industry to ensure a holistic approach to all work completed by the network. The network prides itself on having a patient centred focus and strives to ensure patients lived experience form part of our workstreams.
Some of the partners within the NWKN are-
