LAKPA Priorities 2025

At its AGM in March every year LAKPA sets out the priorities for its work over the coming 12 months, based on the issues where our work will bring the most benefit to our kidney patients and their families – those for 2025 are set out below.

a) LAKPA will continue to work closely with the Trust in developing plans for the longer-term dialysis capacity expansion. During 2025 It will support the Trust in planning and delivering the optimum use of the modular unit including supporting patients in the upgrade of the Lister dialysis unit and planning the means of delivering increases in short term capacity, as well as supporting the delivery of the home therapies project. Karen will be our representative on the Project Team.

b) LAKPA will promote its work and encourage new patients and carers to become members.

c) LAKPA will work closely with the Trust to ensure the successful relocation of the home dialysis unit at Lister Hospital. Ros and Ali will represent us on the Project Team.

d) LAKPA will continue to use Tom Costello’s bequest wisely and focus on improving the support for the well-being of kidney patients in liaison with Jeanette.

e) LAKPA will work with Sandra to improve patient transport.

f) LAKPA will promote its work and encourage new patients and carers to join.

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These priorities were developed in recognition of the issues coming out of the growing population of those with chronic kidney disease with the challenge of supporting this growing population, and particularly to recognise that some are in real financial hardship brought on by the implications of managing their condition.

We are continuing with our campaign for the home dialysis project, including lobbying all the MPs’ across the region and have great hopes that the project will soon be started.

In 2021 LAKPA was fortunate to be left a substantial legacy in the will of the late Tom Costello who had been a dedicated supporter of LAKPA and a member of the LAKPA committee. This has meant that we have been able to fund a number of projects and improvements across the service and are continuing to seek out other opportunities.

We have just financed 4 needling scanners at a cost of £19k which this legacy has made possible.

The patient transport service for patients attending dialysis at one of the units continues to need improvement and, despite some progress, there is much work to be done. We do recognise the extra burden that this can put onto patients and we will support the drive for improvements where we can.