The Problems

The accepted time to Renal Dialysis is 30 - 45 minutes. In rural communities this can mean a journey time of two and a half hours.

Even those patients who use the Ambulance Service, sometimes find after 4 hours of dialysis, that ambulances are busy and it can take three ambulances being diverted to emergency calls, before they are collected for the journey home.

Home Dialysis can tie up an expensive dialysis machine for just one patient and rural locations are not good for home dialysis, because electricity and water supplies are too easily compromised.

Those patients who have to drive long distances for dialysis, often find the time on top of four hours tratment time a great hardship and the cost of getting to and from dialysis is becoming increasingly more expensive. For some patients this is too much to endure and patients are dropping out of dialysis because they can no longer cope. There is a gret deal of documented evidence, in studies and reports from renal Associations that The current system cannot cope with patient need.

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