The KitNewCare project has reached an exciting milestone with the onboarding of Associate Pilot Sites.

KitNewCare is an EU co-funded project dedicated to making kidney healthcare more sustainable and embracing climate neutrality. The project brings together a large consortium with a shared goal of reducing the environmental footprint of kidney care while maintaining high clinical standards through the development of sustainable solutions.

Associate Pilot Sites are kidney centres across Europe joining the project’s existing clinical partners located in Italy, Poland, Spain and the Netherlands by testing sustainability-focused solutions. Associate Pilot Sites will play a key role in strengthening KitNewCare’s impact by participating in the piloting of the following areas led by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare:

Organisational and workflow optimisations

• The organisational and workflow optimisations are coordinated sets of changes, designed to reduce the environmental and financial impacts of healthcare while maintaining or improving health outcomes and social impacts. Associate pilot sites will be building on successful optimisations implemented in the original KitNewCare sites, by replicating these changes within their own centres.

Benchmarking tool

• The Benchmarking tool is designed to measure and monitor health outcomes, social impacts, environmental impacts, and costs of kidney centres and their different treatment options. By identifying performance hotspots and tracking improvements over time, the tool aims to help centres improve their outcomes and shift towards more sustainable practices. Associate Pilot Sites will contribute to the second phase of piloting the tool, helping to improve its usefulness, feasibility and accuracy in capturing outcomes in kidney centres.

Associated pilot sites of the KitNewCare project

The involvement of Associate Pilot Sites will ensure that solutions developed in the project are scalable and adaptable across kidney centres in Europe. We are delighted to welcome KitNewCare’s Associate Pilot Sites across the UK, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Sweden and look forward to working closely together.

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