Tele-Dialysis

The Norwegians have developed a tele-dialysis service where haemodialysis is performed at a local hospital and the nephrologist monitors dialysis remotely through a videolink. The Scottish partners have piloted this service and established a videolink between the renal unit of a satellite hospital in Wick and the renal unit of the main hospital in Inverness. Please see the final report from Scotland which includes both the teledialysis and speech therapy pilots: [Final report Scotland]

Please see a presentation of the service "Telehealth Pilot Services in Caithness & Sutherland" by Mary Wakeling and David Heaney (Caithness General Hospital, WIck, on 8th of February 2011). 

BBC news http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8634562.stm

The teledialysis service received an NHS Highland's Recognising Excellence award. Read more: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/crh/news/

http://www.nhshighland.scot.nhs.uk/News/Pages/RecognisingExcellence-NHSHighlandStaffAwards2010–theresults!.aspx

 Photo: Robert MacDonald

• Read more about this pilot in the UK renal patient magazine Kidney Life magazine (page 19) http://www.kidney.org.uk/k_life/download.html
• An article in Swedish in Dialäsen magazine for renal staff in Sweden,Finland,Denmark and Norway http://www.dialasen.com/PDF/dialasen6%20del2.pdf
• See presentation “Transnational exchange of eHealth innovation in sparsely populated areas of the Northern Periphery” for the eHealth & Telemed 2010 – Evidence in Action conference which was on 13-14 December 2010 at The Royal Society of Medicine, London
• See a presentation of the service