Guidelines and Commentaries

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.

 

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.

 

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 Endorsed by the British Transplantation Society	March  2018	2023
Management of Blood Borne Viruses within the Haemodialysis Unit	Elizabeth Garthwaite, Veena Reddy, Sam Douthwaite, Simon Lines, Kay Tyerman & James Eccles	June 2019	2024
Monitoring children and young people with, or at risk of developing Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD)	Jan Dudley, Paul Winyard, Matko Marlais, Oliver Cuthell, Tess Harris, Jiehan Chong, John Sayer,  Daniel P Gale, Lucy Moore, Kay Turner, Sarah Burrows & Richard Sandford	November 2018	2023
Perioperative management of people with inherited salt-wasting alkaloses (Gitelman’s syndrome and Bartter’s syndrome) undergoing non-urgent surgical procedure	Hugh Gallagher, Jasmeet Soar & Charles Tomson Endorsed by the Royal College of Anaesthetists	March  2015	2020
Peritoneal Dialysis in Adults and Children	Graham Woodrow, Stanley Fan, Christopher Reid, Jeannette Denning & Andrew Neil Pyrah	June 2017	2022
Planning, initiation & withdrawal of Renal Replacement Therapy	Graham Warwick, Andrew Mooney, Lynne Russon & Rebecca Hardy	January 2014	2019
Post-Operative Care in the Kidney Transplant Recipient	Richard Baker, Patrick Mark, Rajan Patel, Kate Stevens & Nicholas Palmer Endorsed by the British Transplantation Society	February 2017	2022
Treatment of Acute Hyperkalaemia in Adults Hyperkalaemia Algorithm Hyperkalaemia Cardiac Arrest Algorithm	Annette Alfonzo, Jasmeet Soar, Robert MacTier, Jonathan Fox, Ilona Shillday, Jerry Nolan, Roop Kishen, Alistair Douglas, Bill Bartlett, Martin Wiese, Brenda Wilson, Jacqueline Beatson, Lyn Allen, Mumtaz Goolam & Morag Whittle Endorsed by the Resuscitation Council, the Intensive Care Society, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, the Society for Acute Medicine; and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine	March  2014	2019
Undernutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease	Mark Wright, Elizabeth Southcott, Helen MacLaughlin, Stuart Wineberg	June 2019	2024
Prevention of Contrast Induced Acute Kidney Injury (CI-AKI) In Adult Patients	Andrew Lewington, Robert MacTier, Richard Hoefield, Andrew Sutton, David Smith & Mark Downes  Endorsed by the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and the Royal College of Radiologists	April  2013	2018
Vascular Access for Haemodialysis	Mick Kumwenda, Sandip Mitra  & Claire Reid	January 2015	2020