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The key to environmental footprint improvement in healthcare and critical care uses the framework: avoiding, reducing, reusing, and recycling without compromising safe, quality care, with simultaneous…
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19 Jun 2023 •
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Heather Baid, principal lecturer, Eleanor Damm, specialty trainee, Louise Trent, intensive care physician, Forbes McGain, associate dean sustainable healthcare
A guide for healthcare professionals. Consists of a flowchart that helps to review a patient with the aim of adjusting their inhaler usage and reduce carbon footprint.
Alongside Liz Sturgiss and Peter Tait I am guest editor for this special edition on the topic of Climate Crisis in a Family Medicine journal:
https://academic.oup.com/fampra/issue/40/3
Thank you…
Well worth a read by anyone involved in prescribing, deprescribing and caring for patients with multiple long term conditions.
This NIHR alert is a "plain English" summary of a number of recent…
This one hour webinar from Greener PCPA covers a brief overview of communicating about climate change and influencing behavioural change and a detailed review of the Open Prescribing greener…
This Swedish life cycle assessment by Hemberg et al. (2023) compares single-use and reusable central venous catheter insertion kits, including metal, plastic and textiles items. In contrast to a 2012…
A video, for patients, explaining four simple inhaler and environment changes: daily preventer inhaler use as prescribed, correct inhaler technique, changing to a lower-carbon inhaler, and taking used…
This evaluation shows that Social and Therapeutic Horticulture is effective in relieving distress in palliative care and may be considered a valued therapeutic intervention. The findings can inform…