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Abstract
The healthcare sector is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Gases that contribute to climate change include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons.…
Interventions that consider climate change, sustainability, and nature should be integral to health system functioning. Placing sustainability at the core of the NHS’s future offers opportunities to…
For a greener ICU, we call for healthcare researchers to measure the environmental benefits of interventions to limit low-value care, and for healthcare practitioners to increase implementation of…
Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Green Team Competition.
Team members
Tristan McMullan, Consultant Opthamologist
Gabriele Quaranta,…
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8 Mar 2024 •
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Tristan McMullan, Consultant ophthalmologist and Gabriele Quaranta, Oculoplastics Fellow
Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Green Team Competition.
Team members
Emma Baker and Lucy Wimmer, Hand Therapy Team Leads Setting / patent…
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28 Feb 2024 •
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Emma Baker and Lucy Wimmer, Hand Therapy Team Leads
Abstract
BackgroundHuman health is inextricably linked to planetary health. The desire to nurture and protect both concurrently requires the mitigation of healthcare-associated environmental harms…
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19 Feb 2024 •
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Walpole S, Popat A, Blakey EP, Holden E, Whittaker B, Saggu R, Fennell-Wells A, Armit K & Hothi D
This report presents an overview of how doctors' efforts between 2008 and 2020 have resulted in the institutionalisation of sustainable healthcare as a key priority for the NHS in England.
The…
This 30 minute podcast from GP Online features our very own Dr Tamsin Ellis, a London GP, director and co-chair of Greener Practice, andGP associate here at the Centre for Sustainable…
The Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Intensive Sustainable Innovation Group Scholar Programme saw six scholars each delivering a sustainable healthcare…
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27 Nov 2023 •
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Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Centre for Sustainable Healthcare