The Renal Association has produced guidance on best practice in the management of patients with kidney disease since 1995. The current editions of the Guidelines can be found in the table below, along with commentaries on other relevant guidelines.
| Guideline | Authors | Publication Date | Review Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anaemia of Chronic Kidney Disease | Ashraf Mikhail, Christopher Brown, Jennifer Ann Williams, Vinod Mathrani, Rajesh Shrivastava, Jonathan Evans, Hayleigh Isaac & Sunil Bhandari | June 2017 | 2022 |
| Commentary on the KDIGO Guideline on the Diagnosis, Evaluation, Prevention and Treatment of CKD-MBD | James Burton, David Goldsmith, Nicki Ruddock, Rukshana Shroff & Mandy Wan | June 2018 | 2023 |
| Commentary on the NICE Guideline on Tolvaptan for treating autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease | Albet CM Ong, Caroline Ashley, Tess Harris, Richard Sandford, John A Sayer, Roslyn J Simms & Grahame Wood | June 2016 | 2023 |
| Haemodialysis | Damien Ashby, Natalie Borman, James Burton, Richard Corbett, Andrew Davenport, Ken Farrington, Katey Flowers, James Fotheringham, Andrea Fox, Gail Franklin, Claire Gardiner, Martin Gerrish, Sharlene Greenwood, Daljit Hothi, Abdul Khares, Pelagia Koufaki, Jeremy Levy, Elizabeth Lindley, Jamie Macdonald, Bruno Mafrici, Andrew Mooney, James Tattersall, Kay Tyerman, Enric Villar & Marin Wilkie | July 2019 | 2024 |
| Living donor kidney transplantation | Peter Andrews & Lisa Burnapp |
Further guidelines and commentaries are currently being written. Please see the Recent Activity page for more information.
Accreditation
The RA Clinical Practice Guidelines are not funded by any external organisation, commercial company or charity. Several of these guidelines have also been published in BMC Nephrology.
The guidelines have been accredited by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The accreditation is valid until January 2022. This ensures that the Guidelines themselves will automatically be NICE accredited, providing they follow the processes laid out in the Clinical Practice Guideline Development Manual.
Accreditation helps health and social care professionals identify the most robustly produced guidance available, enabling them to deliver high quality care. More information on accreditation can be viewed at http://www.nice.org.uk/accreditation
The Renal Association’s Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) committee have produced a Strategy Document to plan their work through until 2020.
