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Anthonys Story. Nocturnal Dialysis: This Game-Changing-Service Puts Patients at The Centre of Their Care, Supporting Them to Access Treatment When and How it Suits Them.
Submitted by: Salisbury, Anne
Country: Australia

Nocturnal Hemodialysis is a home-based dialysis model of care that supports an individual’s self-management, quality of life and health outcomes. The Darling Downs Kidney Service, a regional service in Queensland, Australia, provides training and assistance for patients who choose, and are suitable for, this model of care. Anthony is a young indigenous man with kidney failure. To support him and other patients that do not have suitable accommodation for home-based hemodialysis, the service has made available their newly built home-training dialysis unit for the use of independent patients’ after-hours. This novel approach is allowing more patients access to nocturnal dialysis, with all its inherent benefits. The Advancing Kidney Care 2026 (AKC2026) team first heard of Anthony, his difficult dialysis journey, and about how his service was supporting him towards his ultimate goal of kidney transplantation in 2020. Anthony’s outstanding renal team made this model of care (and film) possible by being innovative, specialized, and dedicated, by supporting patients to access care that responds to their personal situation and that is their choice. By sharing this film, we and the Darling Downs Kidney Service hope to shine a light on possibilities for care, whilst acknowledging Anthony for his amazing resilience and drive. At time of submission, Anthony had been made active on the Queensland Kidney Transplant waitlist.