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There are significant opportunities for services to improve their sustainability and carbon footprint. We report a sustainability review of our dermatology department with a focus on human behaviours,…
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11 Jan 2025 •
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S. Mann, N. Sebastian, E. Okonji, V. B. Y. Tso, C. Thind, S. Unter, B. C. Gee, A. J. Bedlow, J. J. Carter, H. Eykyn, T. Williamson, S. Barrass, S. Tso
Aims: Clinical laboratories play a vital role in healthcare, yet their operations contribute to resource consumption, waste generation, and greenhouse gas emissions. The need for sustainable practices…
To promote improved antimicrobial stewardship and sustainability by improving the appropriate use of oral metronidazole in surgical wards at the Royal Alexandra Hospital
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
The disposal of waste contributes to the environmental impact of healthcare. Kidney care, and dialysis in particular, produces large amounts of plastic and packaging waste. If explored further, the…
The Clinical guidelines for environmental sustainability in dentistry, which aim to give staff working in dentistry a better understanding of how to make services more environmentally sustainable,…
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10 Jan 2024 •
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Bakar, M.; Duane, B.; Fennell-Wells, A.; Klass, C.
A team from Spain have published a method to establish the material composition of commonly used endoscopic accessories and then used life cycle assessment methodology to quantify the carbon footprint…
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16 May 2023 •
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López-Muñoz P, Martín-Cabezuelo R, Lorenzo-Zúñiga V, et al
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
