Home treatment reimbursement

Meeting the Cost of Home Dialysis Treatment – Together We Can

Unfortunately many of us are more than familiar with the surge in utility prices that came into place back in April this year. To combat this the NKF stepped up to voice their concerns for home dialysis patients.

Home dialysis should be a freedom of choice for patients to have their treatment within the comfort of their own home and to be reimbursed suitably to cover the costs of lifesaving treatment. With a nationwide NKF survey that took place in early 2022, large discrepancies came to light with regards to the reimbursement of utility charges for patients who dialyse at home. Therefore, the NKF took a stand to launch the ‘Meeting the Cost of Home Dialysis Treatment – Together We Can’ campaign. If patients could still afford to dialyse from home it would save the NHS a substantial amount of money, instead of an influx of patients returning to in-centre dialysis as they could no longer afford their treatment at home. A letter from NKF Chief Executive, Andrea Brown, has been sent to the Chief Executives of NHS Trusts, a copy of the letter has also been sent to the members of the All Party Parliamentary Kidney Group, Chairs of Kidney Patient Associations and Clinical Directors of Renal Services with an urgent request to review reimbursement for kidney patients who dialyse at home.

For more information on the campaign and how you can help take a stand to support this move, please visit:

https://www.kidney.org.uk/meetingthe-cost-of-home-dialysistreatment-together-we-can