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SusQI project completed as part of The 2020 Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Green Ward Competition.
Project Aim: To reduce the waste of linen and consumables in the ICU.
Results:
At…
John Agar and Katherine Barraclough have produced a fantastic review looking at the impacts of environmental change on kidney health as well asthe environmental damage caused bykidney services…
Key learning point
The introduction of remote monitoring with teleconsultation has the potential to improve the targeting of specialist care resources (financial and environmental) to deliver the…
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust revolutionised patient care while championing environmental responsibility by adopting Open Medical's PathpointⓇ Virtual Fracture Clinic. Their digitally…
Improving resource use by reusing and recycling dialysis reverse osmosis (RO) system reject water. ROsystem reject water was reused to provide steam for sterilising autoclave systems, for waste…
This collection of papers from theBritish Dental Journalexplores how dentistry canbe carried out more sustainably and covers topicsincluding procurement, climate change, waste disposal, energy use and…
Key learning point
Avoiding unnecessary secondary care referrals is an effective way of releasing resources in specialist units, saving on patient transport and other environmental costs.
Paper…
Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023.
The project report highlights changes and initiatives implemented to reduce food cost, CO2 emissions and food…
*please note: this article is behind a paywall*
Abstract
The US Environmental Protection Agency Resource Conservation website begins: “Natural resource and energy conservation is achieved by…
