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Rumina Önaç is a GP and Sustainability Lead for 12 surgeries in York, where her inspirational work has achieved national Green Impact for Health awards of silver for her own surgery and a bronze for…
Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), is it an essential medicine?
An overview of the medical application areas of SF6. Is it really needed when there are low or zero global warming potential alternatives.
The Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) Greener Respiratory Healthcare Quality Improvement (QI) toolkit has been developed to support heathcare professionals working in the primary care setting to…
Resources for pharmacists and patients on environmentally-safe disposal of inhalers.
Background:
To meet the Respiratory domain of the Pharmacy Quality Scheme (PQS),patient-facing pharmacy staff…
The South East region has worked collaboratively with a number of SE systems to create a series of patient-facing videos about inhalers. The videos are centered aroundpatient choice;what to expect…
SSCreport + recorded workshop
- background/context of sustainable respiratory care
- summary of interviews with practice patients
- framework for action/SusQI projects in GP
supervisor --> Dr…
This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, providesgreenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the…
Nephrologist,Charlie Tomson, gives an overview of the challenge of reducingcarbon in the NHS and potential solutions - from energy and waste reduction to Sustainable Care Pathways.
The continued use of metered-dose inhalers in respiratory care will have a potentially catastrophic effect on global warming if production is not controlled, largely because these inhalers use potent…