NHS Ayrshire & Arran Renal

04/08/2025

What is a Clinical Frailty Score (CFS)?

The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a judgement-based frailty tool that assesses the person's illnesses, function and cognition (thinking and understanding) to generate a frailty score ranging from 1 (very fit) to 9 (terminally ill).

30/07/2025

What’s our Aim:

Year 2: The impact of recording the Clinical Frailty Score (CFS)

29/07/2025

What is Frailty?

Who does it apply to?

Is it not just old people?

29/07/2025

What is Transform AKC?

Transform AKC aims to improve patient experience and address the unmet need in advanced kidney care.

The Transform AKC project focuses on enhancing the multi-professional care provided to:
• Adults in the 18-24 months before commencing kidney replacement therapy (KRT).
• Patients with eGFR

29/07/2025

What’s our Aim:

Year 1: Record Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) for >90% of patients known to AKC in A+A with eGFR

28/07/2025

What is AKC?
We have recently rebranded our service in NHSAAA to the Advanced Kidney Care (AKC) Team, this includes Doctors, Nurses, Dieticians, Pharmacists and more.

Advanced Kidney Care refers to the multi-professional framework required to support high quality care in patients who are at high risk of progressing to kidney failure requiring kidney replacement therapy or supportive care. The specific criteria for AKC are developing, Renal GIRFT recommends that p...

28/07/2025

A local story to share ...

22/07/2025

22/07/2025

https://x.com/ThinkKidneys/status/1861412255994134952
Ongoing training and QI projects happening behind the scenes in NHSAAA, what is our focus? ...

13/03/2025

13/03/2025

Today is ! 💗 With over 400 people waiting on a kidney transplant in Scotland, the living donation programme remains an important part of increasing donation and transplantation rates. Find out more at http://livingdonation.scot