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Benzodiazepines and z-drugs are commonly prescribed medications in a variety of psychiatric settings.The majority of inpatient benzodiazepine prescriptions are for >4 weeks (95.6%) and off-label…
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April 2025
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Lobo, M., Alriyahi, B., Salimkumar, R., Salwey, C. and Eltayeb, H.
Project completed as part of the National Green Maternity Challenge 2024-25 by the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT (NNUHFT) team.Reducing the impact of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy -…
New paper looking at the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) of all products and processes involved in the manufacture and use of Penthrox. *Not open access
Results:This LCIA found that Penthrox…
This study explores the economic cost and carbon footprint associated with current patterns of prescribing long-term flupentixol decanoate long-acting injections. Authors conducted an analysis of…
SusQI project completed as part of the Hywel Dda University Health Board Green Team Competition from September 2022-January 2023.
The NHS Wales Decarbonisation Strategic Delivery Plan, launched…
The targets of the Climate Change Act are very challenging for the NHS, which means fundamental transformation of clinical practices will be required to meet them.Sustainability in the NHS has mostly…
New paper launched in conjunction with the new HealthcareLCA database. Paper discusses the new open-access database, methods and everything known about life cycle assessments (LCA's) in healthcare so…
Launch of a new Healthcare LCA Database, an up-to-date repository of published life cycle assessements within healthcare.
'HealthcareLCA brings together environmental assessments of health systems,…
What's the carbon footprint of anaesthetic gases?
You can use your phone to determine the carbon impact and cost of your chosen anaesthetic agent.
Developed in conjunction with Southampton…
