DAYLife - Dialysis at yours: life fulfilled

Home dialysis gives people more control over their treatment and their lives — yet where you live still shapes whether it's on offer. The GIRFT report set a clear ambition: every kidney centre reaching at least 20% of its dialysis population on home therapies. Getting there means centres learning from each other rather than solving the same problems in isolation.

That's what this hub is for. It's an interactive knowledge and resource platform to support renal professionals with home dialysis QI projects — a place to share your challenges, learn best practices, and connect with a network of colleagues already doing this work, so you're not starting from scratch.

Evidence and resources: research publications, national reports (GIRFT, InterCEPT, NKF), and QI training resources to ground your project in what's already known
Workstream hubs: focused resources on shared haemodialysis care, psychosocial support, shared decision making, and peer support
An interactive project map: see what other centres are doing, filter by topic, and read full QI reports where available
Mentoring programme materials: welcome packs, meeting schedules, and coaching resources for units paired through DAYLife
A regional data dashboard: track progress against the national home dialysis targets
Opportunities to contribute: submit your own project, so your learning (including what didn't work) helps the next centre

What's new?

Our latest resources and initiatives

DAYLife Summit 2025

UK Kidney Week 2025 Posters

Shared Care HD Mentoring Programme

Peritoneal Dialysis Mentoring Programme

At present there continues to be a significant variation in the proportion of patients on home dialysis across regions within the UK highlighted by the 2021 GIRFT report, despite professional guidance and patient groups stating that more people wish to dialyse at home.
There is a recommendation that all kidney centres should have a minimum of 20% of the prevalent dialysis population on a home dialysis modality.
There is a need for DAYLife - a national, clinically led improvement programme to share and scale up the learning, reduce regional variation, and provide infrastructure to spread successful interventions at pace.

Enable culture change and clinical leadership to promote equitable access to high quality home dialysis therapy in all kidney centres across the UK and ensure provision of the right treatment for the right person at the right time.

Aims

All kidney centres in the UK to engage and actively participate in quality improvement work around home dialysis therapy by December 2025
All centres to achieve a minimum of 20-25% of their prevalent dialysis patients to be on a home therapy by December 2027
Centres currently achieving the target of 20% to continue to demonstrate incremental improvement in the proportion of patients on home dialysis year on year.

Develop a central hub of resources to share best practices and learning; as a repository for QI impact evidence; platform for professionals to connect with each other; signpost to patient information resources around home dialysis
Engage centres and networks to prioritise improvement work around home dialysis and offer QI support where required
Raise awareness and provide regular progress updates through improved communications and partnerships with key stakeholders and centres
Increase regional QI leadership and capability through structured QI training days and mentorship
Establish a quarterly national home dialysis quality dashboard

DAYLife Peer Support Webinar | 30 April 2026 | Register Now!

Learn

Learn more about the DAYLife programme and access quality improvement resources to help you increase home dialysis adoption and quality.

We have a repository of resources developed as part of the DAYLife programme, published evidence from QI initiatives, and links to additional resources to help guide your practice.

Mentor

Explore the DAYLife Mentoring Programmes — connecting kidney centres across the UK to accelerate the growth of shared haemodialysis care and peritoneal dialysis through structured, peer-to-peer mentoring. Mentors and mentees build capability together through monthly paired meetings, quarterly development days, and dedicated QI training, all designed to strengthen local services and boost patient confidence and independence.

Contribute

Update the community on your quality improvement projects related to home dialysis to contribute to best practices and inform future projects.

What are you doing? How's it going? What lessons can we learn from your experiences?

Contribute to the body of knowledge by sharing information about your QI project with the community.

Shared Haemodialysis Care

This working group provides resources to support the 'shared care' approach in haemodialysis, where patients gradually develop skills alongside health professionals, allowing for for self-paced decision-making.

Psychosocial Support

Distress is a natural response to kidney failure and related treatment choices. This workstream provides resources for embedding proactive holistic support systems that address the emotional and social dimensions of home dialysis.

Shared Decision Making

Access this workstream for guidance on fostering a participatory environment where patients' values and preferences are central to selecting appropriate CKD treatments.

Peer Support

Peer support from other patients and carers is crucial in informing, choosing, and maintaining home dialysis. Access this workstream for resources to develop peer-to-peer networks that enhance patient confidence and treatment engagement in home dialysis.

Share your feedback

We would greatly appreciate your feedback on the DAYLife hub.

Your insights will help us to develop a high quality, useful and intuitive hub to support home dialysis quality improvement projects throughout the UK.

The DAYLife Team

KQIP

KQIP is a dynamic network of kidney health professionals, patients and carers who are committed to developing, supporting and sharing improvement in kidney services, to enhance outcomes and quality of life for people with kidney disease.

Kidney Care UK

Kidney Care UK is the UK's leading kidney patient support charity, which provides practical, emotional and financial support to kidney patients and their families and funds patient-centred projects to help improve kidney care services throughout the UK.

National Kidney Federation

The National Kidney Federation is the largest kidney patient charity in the UK run by kidney patients, for kidney patients. The NKF provides national patient support services and campaigns for improvements to renal provision and treatment.

Fresenius

Fresenius Medical Care is the world's leading provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases, of which around 4.2 million patients worldwide regularly undergo dialysis treatment.

At present there continues to be a significant variation in the proportion of patients on home dialysis across regions within the UK highlighted by the 2021 GIRFT report, despite professional guidance and patient groups stating that more people wish to dialyse at home.
There is a recommendation that all kidney centres should have a minimum of 20% of the prevalent dialysis population on a home dialysis modality.
There is a need for DAYLife - a national, clinically led improvement programme to share and scale up the learning, reduce regional variation, and provide infrastructure to spread successful interventions at pace.

Enable culture change and clinical leadership to promote equitable access to high quality home dialysis therapy in all kidney centres across the UK and ensure provision of the right treatment for the right person at the right time.

Aims

All kidney centres in the UK to engage and actively participate in quality improvement work around home dialysis therapy by December 2025
All centres to achieve a minimum of 20-25% of their prevalent dialysis patients to be on a home therapy by December 2027
Centres currently achieving the target of 20% to continue to demonstrate incremental improvement in the proportion of patients on home dialysis year on year.

Develop a central hub of resources to share best practices and learning; as a repository for QI impact evidence; platform for professionals to connect with each other; signpost to patient information resources around home dialysis
Engage centres and networks to prioritise improvement work around home dialysis and offer QI support where required
Raise awareness and provide regular progress updates through improved communications and partnerships with key stakeholders and centres
Increase regional QI leadership and capability through structured QI training days and mentorship
Establish a quarterly national home dialysis quality dashboard

DAYLife Peer Support Webinar | 30 April 2026 | Register Now!