While the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
guidelines recommend that all suitable patients are
offered the choice between home haemodialysis or
haemodialysis in a hospital or satellite unit,7 the global
availability and use of home haemodialysis is very low.
Home haemodialysis now represents 12–25% of all
haemodialysis in Australia and New Zealand,1 whereas
approximately only 1% of the nearly 400 000 patients on
haemodialysis in the USA8 and the 21 000 patients on
haemodialysis in the UK,9 perform their haemodialysis
at home.