Kidney Centre Sustainability Champion information pack

The UK Kidney Centre Sustainability Champion role is essential in driving high-quality, low-carbon, and cost-efficient kidney care. With kidney care’s significant environmental impact—such as energy-intensive treatments, water use, and waste generation—sustainable practice is critical to ensuring environmental responsibility, whilst also improving patient care. By becoming a Sustainability Champion, healthcare professionals can lead quality improvement initiatives and gain opportunities for skill development, networking, and collaboration with patients and multidisciplinary teams to co-create sustainable solutions. 

The Kidney Centre Sustainability Champions scheme is run by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare working with the UK Kidney Association.

Why become a Kidney Centre Sustainability Champion? 

• Take positive action to make kidney care more sustainable 

• Address inequities in healthcare and improve the quality of care delivered to patients 

• Connect to a national initiative and network with like-minded individuals across the globe 

• Lead sustainable quality improvement (SusQI) projects and develop your QI skills 

• Lead and influence local change 

• Work with patients to improve care 

• Gain opportunities for presentations, publications and awards to support your professional registration and corporate professional development (CPD). 

What will you be expected to do? 

• Complete the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s free online self-study course, giving you skills in sustainable kidney care best practice and how to lead a SusQI project 

• Submit data on behalf of your kidney centre (main or satellite) to the trial national audit  

• Join the online network – attend at least one online event and post on our network page 

• Share best practice with your team to accelerate sustainable change and improve patient outcomes 

• Engage with your multiprofessional team to promote sustainability – think about setting up a local sustainability group 

• Engage with patient representatives on improving sustainability and quality of care 

What support will you have? 

• Free access to the CSH online course on Sustainability Kidney Care

• Global networking with monthly online events with guest speakers 

• Access to our online network with discussion and resource-sharing

• Access to valuable case studies and resources

Ready to sign up?

If you would like to become a Kidney Centre Sustainability Champion, please fill in this online form.