The news comes after months of discussions with the local renal dialysis group, patients, health service staff, specialists and politicians.

GSAHS's eastern sector general manager Ken Barnett said yesterday that the service was working closely with Dr Girish Talaulikar, Canberra's renal specialist, to develop a model and plan for the hospital.

"The head of renal services in the ACT will be visiting with the local dialysis group and the hospital on October 20, to look at the space available," Mr Barnett said.

"He is very supportive of GSAHS to develop a proposal for a self-managed renal service."

Mr Barnett confirmed yesterday that discussions that have taken place over the last six months had come to a close and the service was moving into the planning phase, although a proposal still needed to be developed.

"We're very hopeful we can start a service in the new year," Mr Barnett said.

The logistics of the service still need to be ironed out, however Mr Barnett said there would need to be protocols in place to manage any issues if they occurred and that patients would need to undergo a detailed training process to ensure they could administer their own dialysis.

The swift turn around and good news was first revealed when Member for Monaro Steve Whan met with the Cooma-Monaro Renal Dialysis Group on Tuesday and has elated the group's president Dugald Mitchell.

"I think it's wonderful, most people will be able to do it and as I understand only one would still have to travel to Canberra," Mr Mitchell said.

"The major turn around has removed one of the road blocks and now we can move one step closer to having a permanent system set up.

"The way these people have been treated is deplorable and after a lot of pressure logic has prevailed."

Mr Mitchell said the government and GSAHS should be congratulated.

"This is good news for a lot of people," Mr Mitchell said.

The next step for the group is to work closely with GSAHS and decide how best to use the $10,000 worth of funds bequested to the group in an email and the $1000 raised by the Monaro Art Group.

Mr Whan suggested that the group work to establish a buddy-type system or volunteer roster so that the patients would not be alone during their treatment, something Mr Mitchell said would be supported by the group and community.