Lay summary
ASSET will describe the challenges in accessing health services by people with kidney failure and their clinicians, evaluate the use and effectiveness of existing services and their location, and consider differences arising from patient’s sex, gender, ethnicity, rurality, socioeconomic status, burden of multimorbidity, and the intersection of these characteristics. ASSET will include 3 work streams: (1) engage with patients and healthcare providers to identify facilitators and barriers to accessing best care for kidney disease and other illness using qualitative methods; (2) interrogate our linked health data platform to evaluate how comorbidity and kidney disease impacts access to care; and (3) use health economic modelling and geospatial mapping to understand potential benefits to patients and funders. ASSET will provide evidence that identifies points of potential service practice re-design including organisation and location of services. These results will support health delivery policy change, assess cost-efficiency, accessibility and equity of kidney services nationally.