{"id":986,"date":"2016-05-09T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/?p=986"},"modified":"2016-05-09T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T12:39:23","slug":"kidney-disease-is-focus-of-kapcu-trainingseminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2016\/05\/09\/kidney-disease-is-focus-of-kapcu-trainingseminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidney disease is focus of KAPCU training\/seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a021\/04\/16 <a href=\"https:\/\/www-test.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/research\/units\/kapcu.html\">KAPCU&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0first clinical training session took place at the University of Kent&#8217;s Medway campus and was well attended.\u00a0Whilst aimed mainly at GPs, the event attracted many interested colleagues. \u00a0After an informal lunch, two excellent presentations triggered plenty of participation.<\/p>\n<p>EKHUFT\u00a0Renal Consultant Dr Ian John\u00a0delivered the training. The topic was\u00a0acute kidney injury (AKI);\u00a0statistics, advice, management and treatment. Ian also highlighted CHSS PhD student Helen Hobbs&#8217; current AKI research. The training session ended with an active case study discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Clinical Research Fellow Dr Vanessa Short then gave a short talk on getting involved\u00a0in CHSS research.<\/p>\n<p>CHSS and EKHUFT&#8217;s Clinical Professor, Chris Farmer <em>(pictured)<\/em>, followed with a research seminar. \u00a0He asked why we need to develop primary and secondary care research. \u00a0Answer &#8211;\u00a0because 97% of the public think it&#8217;s important! Chris discussed the huge benefits of research and of public and patient involvement (PPI).\u00a0 He is\u00a0working with the NIHR and EKHUFT to increase\u00a0PPI.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar continued with discussion about sequential processing of patients. Chris talked about\u00a0alert systems and patient self-monitoring at home. According to Chris, we all need to get to grips with technology and apps to self-manage our own health!\u00a0He stressed\u00a0the importance of\u00a0the amalgamation of patient information in primary care.<\/p>\n<p>CHSS Professor of Primary and Community\u00a0Care Patricia Wilson closed the event.<\/p>\n<p>KAPCU seminars are regular events.\u00a0Contact:\u00a0Helen Wooldridge:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:h.l.wooldridge@kent.ac.uk\">h.l.wooldridge@kent.ac.uk<br \/>\n<\/a>or visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/events\/events.html\">events <\/a>page. Suggestions and feedback are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a021\/04\/16 KAPCU&#8217;s\u00a0first clinical training session took place at the University of Kent&#8217;s Medway campus and was well attended.\u00a0Whilst aimed mainly at GPs, the event attracted many interested colleagues. \u00a0After an informal lunch, two excellent presentations triggered plenty of participation. EKHUFT\u00a0Renal Consultant Dr Ian John\u00a0delivered the training. The topic was\u00a0acute kidney injury (AKI);\u00a0statistics, advice, management and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2016\/05\/09\/kidney-disease-is-focus-of-kapcu-trainingseminar\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35851,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[10478,135281,135328,11255,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}