ANZDATA invites consumer representatives to join our community interest register. The register serves as a way to keep individuals updated on ANZDATA’s consumer initiatives, news, focus groups, and events. It also serves as a support system for our Consumer Advisory Panel (CAP), which aims to provide ANZDATA with invaluable high-level feedback on specific projects, consumer-facing information, research directions, and priorities from a consumer perspective.
We are particularly interested in hearing from individuals across Australia and New Zealand who have been impacted by kidney failure, are currently undergoing or have received dialysis, have undergone a kidney transplant, or are caregivers, donors, or family members. You don’t need any prior experience in consumer engagement to join our registry. Your lived experiences will give us a valuable perspective and help us to understand our work in a more meaningful way.
To register your interest please contact our community engagement officer via community@anzdata.org.au.
ANZDATA stands for the Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry. ANZDATA is based in Adelaide, at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). ANZDATA collects information, or data, about children and adults receiving dialysis or transplant for kidney failure in Australia and New Zealand.
Each year, kidney units and hospitals complete a survey about patients’ health and kidney failure treatment and give it to ANZDATA. The information includes patients’ names, postcode, sex, ethnic background, the diseases they have and the type of kidney failure treatment they are receiving. The information is collected when a person first starts dialysis or has a kidney transplant and then every year after.
Reports
ANZDATA produces different reports about dialysis and kidney transplant with the data collected. These can tell us things such as the causes of kidney failure and how many people are having a particular type of dialysis or a kidney transplant. Some of these reports are available to the public on our website. Others are sent back to the kidney units and hospitals so they can see the health of their patients, and compared to other units and hospitals. These reports helps hospitals to know whether patients are getting good quality dialysis and transplant care. Hospitals and the health system can then identify where care can be improved. ANZDATA also produces summaries of our reports in the form of infographic sheets and short videos.
Research
ANZDATA has researchers, statisticians and clinicians who conduct research to answer important questions about the health and treatment of people with kidney failure. Data collected by ANZDATA is used in research projects to lead to changes in care and outcomes for patients with kidney failure. More about our current research projects can be found here.
