Welcome to the UK RPG Website.

Our Groups Key Aims & Objectives

To organise at least one symposium per year.
To maintain a human resource directory.
To maintain a recommended reference/reading directory.
To facilitate research. To be financially viable.
To liaise with other groups associated with care of patients with renal impairment.
To facilitate exchange of ideas and information. To maintain an international perspective.
To facilitate training of pharmacists and other health care staff associated with care of patients with renal impairment.
To respond to educational and training requirements of membership as indicated by annual survey. To maintain a renal drug file.

What's New?

Members click here for 2012 Conference Presentations and Workshops - Renal News December 2012 now available in our Reports Section

Do you know what AKI is? Have you seen the new AKI Medicines management tool?
Click here for more details and feedback from the AKI questionnaire sent round to members.

New to Renal Pharmacy?
Click here to access important must know information (available to non-members)

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Become a Member of the RPG

For new people wanting to join the group and for any member wanting to renew their membership simply contact John Monkhouse

Current membership charges are just £25 per year. Membership runs from 1st April to 31st March the following year.

Benefits of membership include:

Access to membership sections of the RPG website
Receive 4 editions of British Journal of Renal Medicine per year
Access to conferences and study days organised by the RPG
Access to the renal pharmacy group membership directory
Receive updates from the British Renal Society on up coming events and news

For all other contact please use our contacts page

This Medication Optimisation Toolkit can be used in conjunction with the ‘Acute Kidney Injury - Risk Assessment Proforma’ developed by the National AKI Delivery Group. This risk assessment proforma is used to identify background risk for AKI, sepsis and volume status and AKI staging (to be published).

Download the Toolkit Here!

UKRPG Members Question & Answer Forum

Are you unsure about dosing a particular drug on your renal unit or want to find out information on renal specific protocols? The UKRPG Q&A forum may be able to help. Post a question on the website, fellow renal pharmacists will be notified and may be able to answer your burning question.

Live feed of some of the latest questions below ... can you help?

Discounted copies of the Renal Drug Handbook available to members

For a limited time we can offer members 50% discount on this publication (plus postage). Contact John Monkhouse for details and ordering.
More recommended reading here

Letter From Sir Gordon Duff, Chairman Of The Commission On Human Medicines

Central Alerting System: Oral Tacrolimus Products Should Be Prescribed And Dispensed By Brand Name Only To Avoid The Risk Of Medication Errors

Renal Pharmacy Group Conference 2013

This year we're in Solihull on 27th - 28th September, Register now and we'll see you there!

The UK Renal Pharmacy Group was set up to facilitate high quality, value-for-money education, training and research for pharmacists (and via them, other health care professionals) involved in provisions of pharmaceutical care to patients with renal disease. We are a not for profit organisation.

UK Renal Pharmacy Group - 26 Oriental Road, Woking, Surrey, GU22 7AW, UK. Tel: 01483 724472. Fax: 01483 727816

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