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Here is a template role description for a Kidney Community Green Ambassador. It includes a draft advert and ideas on ways to involve patients’, families’, friends’ and carers’ views on changes staff…
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31 May 2023 •
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Ali Lawrence, Patient Ambassador, UKKA Sustainability Committee Action Learning and Education workstream
This is an A4 shortened version of the '12 steps to Green a Kidney Unit'https://networks.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/resources/12-steps-green-kidney-unit
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
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
These recommendations to support healthcare providers working in the renal field were developed to raise awareness of the importance of evaluation of the current situation in their renal units as a…
This article announces the creation of the global “GREEN-K” initiative: Global Environmental Evolution in Nephrology and Kidney Care, with a vision of “sustainable kidney care for a healthy planet and…
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19 Apr 2023 •
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Caroline E. Stigant, Katherine A. Barraclough, Mark Harber, Nigel S. Kanagasundaram, Charu Malik, Vivekanand Jha and Raymond C. Vanholder
Key learning point: Simple measures to reduce, reuse and recycle paper resulted in a 75% reduction of paper use, resulting in environmental and financial savings.
Setting/Patient Group: Dialysis…
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10 Apr 2024 •
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Libby Critchley, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Key Learning Point: Purchase and use of a baling machine to compact waste can result in significant environmental and social savings with calculated actual financial saving.
Setting/Patient…
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10 Apr 2024 •
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Paul Williams, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Key learning point: Reducing the burden of waste and improving its segregation into appropriate streams for disposal has positive environmental impacts as well as cost savings.
Setting/Patient…