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A collaboration between the NHS, the voluntary sector and academia has produced new advice for commissioning training on sustainability.

Key learning point “Finding money for green initiatives is always difficult, It would be wonderful if the Unit would re-invest some of its cost savings into more carbon reductions, for example to…

Key learning point: Switching to the 44 to 1 concentration cans is a relatively easy process at negligible cost and may be a simpler method of reducing concentrate solution storage without…

This themed issue of JHH is free to access online; it includes articles by members of the SHE network on medical education and on the concept of resilience.

Dialysis units can make big carbon and £ savings by slimming down their use of dialysis consumables. This guide suggests how you can spot opportunities and measure savings. It's easy! “But…

"Turning the NHS into an environmentally sustainable organisation will take more than switching off the lights in unused rooms. Rather, it demands a complete overhaul of attitudes and behaviour."…

Presentation from the Cost Saving Strategies in Renal Medicine conference on 1 December 2011. Describes a number of recent cost saving green projects from the Green Nephrology Network (many thanks to…

Dissertation by Caroline Tomes, reading for MPhil in Public Health, University of Cambridge 2010-11. (Thesis supervised by Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia) Objective: Climate change has been…

We ran a 5 week SSC for medical students May - June 2011. It was a full time SSC where the majority of time was spent on group project work and for three hours per week students attended tutorials…

This second year SSC allowed students to form groups and work on a project to communicate health and sustainability issues to a specific population of their choice. These examples are from groups…