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Joint activities > JSC Renal Medicine
Joint Specialty Committee for Renal Medicine
Members | Current activities | Minutes, reports and documents
This is a standing committee established jointly between the Royal College of Physicians of
Remit
The Committee is established to ensure that the College is properly briefed on issues in the specialty and the Renal Association is briefed on College plans and policy. It will advise its parent bodies, or other organisations on their behalf, on matters of mutual interest. These will include;
- Workforce and training
- Setting national standards and agreeing joint guidelines and policy statements
- Drawing up specifications for clinical governance in relation to the practice of the specialty
- Developing and extending service review
- Reviewing ethnic minority health issues on an annual basis
- Identifying ethical issues on an annual basis
- Continuing professional development for the specialist, including general medicine if necessary
- Advice to College or other Working Parties
- Any other specific matter of particular relevance to the specialty
The Committee may liaise with other organisations as appropriate to share or obtain advice. However the Committee, or any of its members, may not make any public statement or approve any published materials in its own name or that of its parent bodies, except with their approval.
The above are direct statements from the formal remit. In practice, the Royal College has over 20 specialty committees and is therefore able to bring greater influence through common actions on important issues.
Membership and meetings
The Remit and Constitution can be downloaded from the foot of the page. The Committee meets 3 times a year.
Chair (past president, RA) | John Feehally |
| Renal Association | Peter Mathieson (President) |
| Royal College | President |
| Chair, JSC Renal Workforce Planning Group | Phil Mason |
| Nephrologist 'without portfolio' | John Bradley |
| Representatives | Colin Short (BTS) Paul Stevens (BRS) Paul Rylance (Soc for DGH Nephrologists) |
| Observers | Donal O'Donoghue (National Clinical Director) Juliette Kingcombe [DH Renal Policy Group) |
| Contact: Prof John Feehally | |
Current activities
Guidelines for chronic kidney disease - an initiative jointly with the RCGP to develop management and referral guidelines to ensure appropriate and timely referral of those patients most likely to benefit from specialist management while ensuring improved management of cardiovascular/ progression risk factors in all patients with renal disease in primary and secondary care. The group was chaired by Dr Charlie Tomson. See www.renal.org/ckd and www.renal.org/
Quality Outcomes Framework (QoF) submissions - a new basis for the General Medical Services contract from 2005, under which GPs are paid, offered incentives for meeting a number of quality targets. The JSC put forward a number of proposals for the inclusion in the 2006 revision, including the creation of a new domain, CKD, with four new targets, plus additions to the BP and CKD domains ( the Archive page has more info about the evidence put forward). Several of these were accepted. Further work will be needed in the future. More information about primary care contracting and the GMS contract.
Good medical practice for renal physicians - drafted a specialty-specific section in "Good Medical Practice for Physicians", an RCP document modelled on the GMC document "Good Medical Practice".
Drafting guidance to commissioners on purchasing renal services (Dr Paul Stevens).
“Consultant physicians working with patients” - the renal section in the current (4th edition) of this RCP publication was drafted by Dr John Bradley.
Workforce planning - including the planned expansion of SpR numbers to ensure that by 2010 we have somewhere near adequate numbers of consultant nephrologists to manage the expanding population of patients with ESRF. See also the Training page.
Lectures and Conferences - The Committee also gives advice to the RCP on College Lecturers and Conferences.
Minutes and documents
 JSC unconfirmed minutes 23rd October 2007 | downloads: 175 | type: doc | size: 78 kB |
| JSC Terms of Reference and Membership, Oct 2007 | downloads: 180 | type: doc | size: 39 kB |
 Influenza pandemic: Briefing and guidance for adult renal units, Oct 2007 | downloads: 172 | type: pdf | size: 233 kB |
| JSC Minutes 26th June 2007 | downloads: 184 | type: pdf | size: 182 kB |
| January 2007 Minutes | downloads: 235 | type: pdf | size: 200 kB |
| The Changing Face of Renal Medicine in the UK | downloads: 488 | type: pdf | size: 318 kB |
| 'The future of the specialty' - Report from the Joint Specialty Committee, 2007. | |