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Disposable gloves are one of the biggest environmental hotspots in hospital, with more than 100 used per patient per day in intensive care. Despite this usage there are many circumstances where glove…
Slides of the presentation done for Allied health sustainability network meeting 18/10/2023.
Title:Development of an occupational therapy version of the planetary health report card
Presentor:…
Opinion piece on what ambulance based paramedic's could do to help demonstrate what we are already doing and what more we need to do to help reach net zero.
Would love to here the views of others…
Linda Cornish(Clinical Specialist Hand Therapist, MCSP) andSarah Bradley(Consultant Hand Therapist MSc, DipCOT, RCOT member) wrote for OTnews Sept edition ahead of the British Association of Hand…
Reuse and recycling: Leeds City Council Housing Occupational Therapy
Jenny Haslock and SallyChawner-Baxter demonstrate the triple (financial, environmental and social) impact of the Housing…
Critical Care Susnet Networking presentation
Speaker - Dr Nicole Hunfeld, PhD, PharmD Critical Care
Topic - Material flow analysis and carbon hotspots in intensive care
Video recording…
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
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…
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Happy to share a recently published article that look at new clinical reasoning (professional reasoning) that can specifically target environmental sustainable healthcare provision. The…