Kidney Dietitian Specialist Group - Kidney Dietitians Week 2026

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We’re excited to announce Kidney Dietitians Week 2026, taking place from Monday 19 to Friday 23 October. Join us for a week of lunchtime CPD webinars, running daily from 12.30 - 2pm, designed to inform, inspire, and connect renal dietitians across the UK.

Important

A single registration is for the five webinars being held. Recordings for all webinars will be emailed to all those who purchase tickets.

Day one - The Role of the Dietitian in Early CKD and AGM

Annemarie Aburrow, Primary Care Engagement Coordinator and Specialist Dietitian presenting on The Role of the Dietitian in Early CKD in Primary Care.

In this session, Annemarie will share her unique role as a Specialist Dietitian working within the SPOT-CKD programme, supporting people with early-stage CKD through a primary care model. She will discuss the development of a new referral pathway, the challenges and successes of implementing early dietetic intervention, and the impact on patient experience and self-management. The session will also explore lessons learned, the creation of patient education resources including 12 educational videos, and opportunities for dietitians to play a greater role in prevention and early intervention within CKD care.

About Annemarie - Annemarie has a split role in Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust. She works as a Primary Care Engagement Coordinator to strengthen relationships, communication, and integration between primary care and community services. She also works one day a week as a specialist dietitian supporting patients with early-stage CKD in the community as part of the SPOT-CKD team.

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Day two - New Peritoneal Dialysis Guidelines

Deepa Kariyawasam, Renal Dietitian at King's College Hospital, London presenting on New Peritoneal Dialysis Guidelines.

The session will discuss the soon to be launched guideline- Joint International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism (ISRNM) and International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) practice recommendation on nutrition management in peritoneal dialysis which Deepa Kariyawasam is a co-author of.

About Deepa - Deepa Kariyawasam is a renal dietitian at King's College Hospital, London. Deepa's clinical role currently covers inpatient admissions and outpatient dialysis care. Deepa is also currently on the Executive Committee of EDTNA/ERCA and on their Accreditation Committee. Deepa has recently accredited a renal dietetics course in the Middle East with the EDTNA/ERCA Accreditation team. Deepa was editor of a recently launched EDTNA/ERCA Nutrition App (https://nutrition.edtnaerca.org/) consisting of some commonly used nutritional screening tools and guidance about malnutrition. Deepa is also an author on the current NICE CKD guideline (NG203)/

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Day three - Diabetes Management in Haemodialysis: What does a renal dietitian need to know?

Christopher Spencer, Kidney Specialist Dietitian with the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust presenting on Diabetes Management in Haemodialysis: What does a renal dietitian need to know?

Managing diabetes in people receiving haemodialysis can be challenging, with dialysis affecting glucose levels, insulin requirements and how we interpret markers such as HbA1c. This practical session will cover the key things renal dietitians need to understand, including glucose targets and monitoring, CGM and insulin pumps, diabetes treatments and why insulin requirements may differ on dialysis days. We’ll also look at how to bring this into the dietetic assessment, including carbohydrate intake, meal and insulin timing, managing hypo- and hyperglycaemia and supporting people with poor nutritional intake. The aim is to give renal dietitians practical knowledge they can use in everyday practice, and help recognise when specialist diabetes support is needed.

About Christopher - Christopher Spencer has worked as a Kidney Specialist Dietitian with the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for the past 12 months, where he was appointed to lead the development and expansion of the kidney dietetic service for patients
across South Devon. Prior to this, he worked for three years as a Diabetes Dietitian at Torbay Hospital. His experience across both renal and diabetes services has developed a particular specialist interest in supporting patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) alongside diabetes, helping patients to navigate the nutritional complexities of managing both conditions. Christopher is also passionate about education, training and service development, and enjoys supporting other dietitians and members of the renal multidisciplinary team (MDT) to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence in the nutritional management.

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Day four - Kidney Stones Management

Barbara Engel, Kidney Specialist Dietitian and Senior Lecturer in Dietetics and Clare Gallimore, Kidney Dietitian working at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

This session will provide an overview of kidney stones, their medical management, and the evidence surrounding diet in reducing kidney stone risk. The session will conclude with a series of case studies designed to equip attendees with the knowledge and confidence to provide personalised dietary advice, based on the patient’s stone composition and urine result (or metabolic evaluation).

More about Barbara - She worked as a kidney specialist dietitian for over 30 years in London and Stoke on Trent, where she completed a PhD investigating body composition changes in people with kidney disease. Sh also worked at the University of Surrey for over 20
years (sometimes alongside her kidney role) as a senior lecturer in dietetics and programme director for the BSc Dietetics programme. She is a committee member of the KDGS, co-organising the post graduate education course alongside Eunice Musa.

More about Clare - Is a Kidney Dietitian working at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, based at Southmead hospital. She graduated from University of Wales, Institute, Cardiff in 2001 and has been working in kidney dietetics for 19 years. Relating to kidney stones, she have had a stones clinic as part of her clinical workload since 2010, and she had the honour of co-writing the kidney stones chapter in the 7th edition of the manual of dietetic practice - together with the esteemed senior lecturer in dietetics Dr Barbara Engel.

Day five - Protein Restriction Debate in CKD

Bruno Mafrici, Kidney Dietitian and Lina Johansson, Co-lead for Clinical Academic AHPs at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Renal Dietitian

Lina and Bruno will debate the pros and cons of a low-protein diet in CKD 1-5, critically appraise the evidence and translate this into clinical practice.

More about Lina - Dr Lina Johansson is co-lead for Clinical Academic AHPs at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a renal dietitian for over 20 years. Her role is to support AHPs into research within Imperial and beyond. Her PhD (completed in 2012) focused on older people and dialysis. Her current research interests are wide ranging with current projects focusing on GLP-1s. Lina's strong clinical interest is supporting people with
CKD stages 3 and 4.

More about Bruno - Bruno is a kidney dietitian with over 20 years of experience. He was the previous chair of the RNG (2018-2022), current author and editor of the pocket guide of clinical nutrition (PENG). He works in Nottingham as a non-medical prescriber kidney dietitian; he is a university lecturer, and he is one of the co-founders of Kidney Nutrition Matters LDT. He is currently in his third year of his PhD exploring amino acid and protein losses and the role of their supplementation in people receiving maintenance dialysis.

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