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Whether you are new to sustainable healthcare or been working at it for years, please take a look at the UKKA/the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare/Sustainable Healthcare Coalition '12 steps to Green…
This project was highly commended in the 2018 Green Ward Competition Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.
Key learning point: There are multiple opportunities to reduce waste and water…
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13 May 2024 •
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Jenkins H, Webb L, Eyles K, Dicks M, McAleer N, Luke R, Al-Zaved H, Harry J, Channing K, Hubbard A & Bingham C
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This is our 3rd issue of our monthly publication.
The Eco-Smart Newsletter Will Provide Easy To Read Articles On Sustainable Healthcare Strategy, Technology Insights,…
Podiatrists have a shared responsibility to work and live as ‘green’ as possible, and to share this message
with patients. Reducing waste, physically and in the form of unnecessary treatment, and…
The following document complies with some of the most up-to-date research that has been conducted with regard to nursing and climate change. We have compiled the literature into one document to direct…
As part of Greener AHP Week,Jessie Frost (Chief Sustainability Officer's Clinical Fellow at Greener NHS) presented on overview of some of the ongoing national work on the environmental sustainability…
A French group have conducted a carbon footprint of a small, specialised ambulatory endoscopy unit in Strasbourg, France.
They estimate eachendoscopy procedure generates 28kg CO2e, with patient and…
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16 May 2023 •
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Joel Lacroute, Juliette MARCANTONI, Stephane PETITOT, Julien WEBER, Patrick LEVY, Bastien DIRRENBERGER, Irina Tchoumak, Mat- hilde BARON, Stéphanie GIBERT, Sandrine MARGUERITE, Anne DERLON, Olivier Gronier, Jerome Huppertz.
A team from Spain have published a method to establish the material composition of commonly used endoscopic accessories and then used life cycle assessment methodology to quantify the carbon footprint…
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16 May 2023 •
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López-Muñoz P, Martín-Cabezuelo R, Lorenzo-Zúñiga V, et al
Water is a dwindling natural resource and potable water is wrongly considered an unlimited resource. Dialysis, particularly hemodialysis, is a water-hungry treatment that impacts the environment. The…
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27 Apr 2023 •
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Mohamed Ben Hmida, Tahar Mechichi, Giorgina Barbara Piccoli, Mohamed Ksibi