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Green 4 Health podcast

Created on
7 Nov 2022
by
Angela Hayes
My first podcast- looking at being green in health care. I'm interviewing Dr Finella Craig,Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care Medicine at Great Ormond Street Green 4 Health: Dr Fin Craig…
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Dialysis after storm Ian

Created on
27 Oct 2022
by
Frances Mortimer
A few insights into what it is like being cut off from dialysis after a big weather event, and what it must be like for the unit staff, with electricity outages and knowing their patients are…
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Orthopaedic Boots - What's the carbon footprint?

Created on
25 Oct 2022
by
Joanne Sullivan
Hi All I am looking for information on the carbon footprint of the Mediboot (see picture). In Wales we use around 22,000 of these boots a year. When treatment is complete the majority of boots…
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Do you have an interest in being a Sustainability Champion for your Unit?

Created on
24 Oct 2022
by
Susannah McWilliam
The UKKA’s new Sustainability Committee is looking for a Sustainability Champion in each renal unit across UK – are you someone with an interest in how our kidney care is contributing to climate…
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Mapping the CO2 footprint of a Pathology Test

Created on
21 Oct 2022
by
Andrew Turner
HI all, we have been working with some of the NHS Pathology Networks and developed a Specimen Quality and Transport Dashboard, this includes a carbon footprint section that provides a set of measures…
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Community footprints

Created on
7 Oct 2022
by
Stuart Jeffery
Hi All I am pulling together a HSDR bid to look at sustainability improvements and CO2 reductions of various car closer to homes / out of hospital / virtual ward approaches (plus a comparator with…
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Heat recovery projects

Created on
4 Oct 2022
by
Joshua Cartwright
Hi Does anyone have any experience of heat recovery projects in any context? More specifically - waste/domestic water heat recovery. I am working within the context of…
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Untreated Dialysate and septic tanks

Created on
3 Oct 2022
by
Hayley Pinto
HI Does anyone know of a good reference for advice on this? The high salt and sugar content of untreated dialysate causes problems with septic tanks. I did have a good source…
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Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of single use vs reusable duodenoscopes

Created on
26 Sep 2022
by
Robin Baddeley
A life cycle analysis study of single use vs reusable duodenoscopes has now been published in full: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35718068/ The paper focuses on the use of the endoscopes…
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Sustainable haemodialysis session

Created on
21 Sep 2022
by
Nina Brown
For those of you attending the 14th annual Dialysis Conference this week, there will be a session on sustainable dialysis as part of the programme tomorrow from…