Patient education]

Any patient living with a chronic renal disease should be offered counselling, information and educational activities. Teaching and organisational endpoint are critical in order to be able to enlarge educational offer to meet the patient's needs. The healthcare system will also have to build educational programs pooling staff resources because no new financial support has been dedicated to Patient Education in hospitals. The aim of Educational programs is to improve patient's quality of life. Behaviours, professional practices and positions are changing throughout the process of implementing educational activities. Healthcare providers have to gain new skills to deal at the same time with the care and the cure.