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Aims: Clinical laboratories play a vital role in healthcare, yet their operations contribute to resource consumption, waste generation, and greenhouse gas emissions. The need for sustainable practices…
LINK:Greener Leader Blog Series: Exploring our circles of influence as climate leaders. By Eleanor Murray – The official blog of BMJ Leader
Minimising the impacts of climate change is a huge…
The Institute of Medicine recognises six domains of quality within health care; high quality health care should be safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient centered. For an…
The decision byThe Lancetto commission a 40-page report into the health effects of global warming should be taken as an indication that the medical profession can no longer ignore the implications of…
The disposal of waste contributes to the environmental impact of healthcare. Kidney care, and dialysis in particular, produces large amounts of plastic and packaging waste. If explored further, the…
You can find 3 newly created factsheets for patients wanting to eat a plant based diet with CKD stage 1-5 (not having dialysis), dialysis and transplant in the resources section of the Plant-based…
Created on
20 Jul 2023 •
by
Angeline Taylor, Plant-Based Health Professionals and the Renal Nutrition Group (RNG)
This is a free online carbon footprint calculator for use in in-centre haemodialysis units. It measures your overall footprint and carbon intensity per patient session, and identifies the greenhouse…
Open access article looking at the patient, hospital and environmental cost of unnecessary bloodwork in general surgery inpatients at Vancouver General Hospital.
The article estimates the carbon…
The UKKA Sustainability Committee needs a named staff Sustainability Champion in each UK kidney unit so that best practice ideas for more sustainable kidney care can be disseminated more…
