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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…

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…

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…

Key learning point: Digitalisation of pathology reporting results in significant social as well as environmental and financial savings. Setting/Patient Group:Dialysis unit patient…

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…

Setting/Patient Group: Dialysis, Emergency Department and Theatres Issue to be addressed: Healthcare is a major contributor to demand for virgin single-use plastic. A successful model for PVC…

Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. (2015) 30 (6): 1018-1027. Approximately 2 million chronic haemodialysis patients produce over 2 000 000 tons of waste per year that includes about 600 000 tons of…

Nephrologist,Charlie Tomson, gives an overview of the challenge of reducingcarbon in the NHS and potential solutions - from energy and waste reduction to Sustainable Care Pathways.

Key learning point: Digitalisation of pathology reporting results in significant social as well as environmental and financial savings. Setting/Patient Group:Dialysis unit Issue to be…

Setting/Patient Group: Operating Theatres Issue to be addressed: Inappropriate waste segregation and disposal - all waste from clinical areas within the operating theatre setting was disposed of…