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BMJ Sustainable Practice article describing the benefits of prescribing pills (tablets, capsules etc) rather than liquid.
Key points:
Pills are likely to have a reduced environmental impact…
An overview of a project which aims to embed carbon measurements within orthopaedic trials - informed by our work with Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
How one healthcare body is introducing education on sustainable healthcare across the sector.Embedding environmental sustainability into the health sector has been the goal of the Centre of…
A template for patients to use if they are commencing/currently on a Symbicort inhaler for asthma. It is laid out as an action plan for personal details to be filled in by a clinician. Frequently…
This is not a new resource (published in 2017) but provides some really thought provoking reading on overdiagnosis, overtreatment and waste, including pharmaceutical waste.
The Sustainable Healthcare Coalition's produced a case study of a life cycle assessment for continuous renal replacment therapy (CRRT) using the Baxter PrismaFlex.
Carbon footprint of 72 hours of…
This (open access) paper compares the carbon footprint of 3 operating theatres (UK, US and Canada). It is really interesting to see how different institutional practices influence the carbon…
Duane, B., Berners Lee, M., White, S., Stancliffe, R. & Steinbach, I. BDJ (2017) 223: 589–593
ABSTRACT:
Introduction: National Health Service (NHS) England dental teams need to consider from a…
