A Blueprint for Community Partnerships
To tackle the disparity and to work towards equity in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) we must understand the systemic barriers across healthcare trusts, healthcare professionals and communities.
This will enable us to provide a future of co-production and collaborative partnerships to develop strategies to improve access to LDKT for all community groups.
The pilot project establishes a blueprint for clinical and community Quality Improvement by developing ways of working that allow activity across both sectors to be measured and improved iteratively.
This report shares our learning of a community-clinical framework to reduce inequity for Black patients in a specific part of the kidney care pathway; the combined expertise of GOLD and clinical teams across three diverse renal centres is key to this.
There are also broader learnings here for how community organisations and clinical teams can work in a flat hierarchy to achieve shared aims with a clear framework.