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TheHCWH Global Road Map for Health Care Decarbonization,outlinedmany high impact and key actions for the health sector to reach Net Zero emissions. High level recommendations included declaring a…
Poster to be used in consultation rooms in a Primary care setting to prompt and enable safe, cost effective and pharmacologically equivalent inhaler switches.
SSCreport + recorded workshop
- background/context of sustainable respiratory care
- summary of interviews with practice patients
- framework for action/SusQI projects in GP
supervisor --> Dr…
To introduce a timely process in the provision of elbow crutches to community patients. Reducing waste and protecting and managing resources efficiently (greener AHP).
Greener NHSprescribing dashboards, launched onOpenPrescribing.net, are intended to support practices, Clincal Commissioning Groups and other organisations to review their prescribing and make changes,…
The study uses Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the carbon footprints of 3 vaginal speculum: a single-use acrylic and two reusable stainless steel. Overall, both types of reusables were found…
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31 May 2022 •
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Donahue LM, Hilton S, Bell SG, Williams BC, Keoleian GA.
A case study from Southern Health NHS Foundation trustwhere a quality improvement project led to the introduction of an electric vehicle within an urgent community response service, resulting in…
Patients receiving enteral feeding in the community require plastics/ancillaries to allow feed to be pumped/bolused via the feeding tube. Multi-use syringes are deemed adequate for use in the…
The carbon footprint of general anaesthetics: A case study in the UK
Xiaocheng Hu, JM Tom Pierce, Tim Taylor, Karyn Morrissey
Resources, Conservation & Recycling167(2021) 105411
Background…
This article addresses the growing concern of the impact of climate change is having on healthcare services. There has been a call for all allied health professionals to prepare and mitigate these…