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'Upcycling' dialysis filters?

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7 Jul 2020
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Frances Mortimer
I hadn't realised that discardedkidney dialysis filters are being repurposed to make pure water in some places in Africa, Asia and Latin America - described in this article, titled 'Ingenious…
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"Covid Crisis"....aka......Climate Change and General/Eye Healthcare!

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9 May 2020
by
Andy Cassels-Brown
We all want to "restart" elective care as soon as is safely possible in this Covid Crisis, and in some areas post-Covid era...... and restarting cataract surgery to reverse and prevent blindness has…
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Sustainability Diary March

Created on
17 Mar 2020
by
Alexander Chiu
Hi Sustainability Friends!!! Before I start I just want to wish everyone good health; these are testing times for all our healths and health systems. #staysafe#letsbeatcoronavirus. The…
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Sustainability Diary January

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11 Jan 2020
by
Alexander Chiu
Hi Sustainability Friends!!! My predecessor (Dr Claire Morgan) had handed over an enormous project around the Eyefficiency tool. It is a quality improvement tool for cataract surgery; to implement…
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Kidney patient leaflet re-published

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8 Jan 2020
by
Frances Mortimer
Great to see that the NKF has re-issued their patient information leaflet on Green Nephrology, which we worked on with them a few years back. Seems to be new appetite for sustainable kidney…
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We're scaling up to carbon-neutral healthcare

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28 Nov 2019
by
Admin *
The recent huge interest in climate change has created an unprecedented demand for our charity to help people to take action. We are excited to have more and more nurses and doctors contacting us…
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Embedding Sustainability in the Medical Academy at Gothenburg University, Sweden

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14 Nov 2019
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
Three of the CSH team had the great pleasure to take part in the sustainable week of action at the Sahlgrenska Academy, the medical faculty of Gothenburg University last week. We kicked off the week…
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Reflections on training with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

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11 Nov 2019
by
Catherine Stannard
Hello! Me and a couple of colleagues from the Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership (KQuIP) went to the CSH sustainable QI training day last month.Below is a link to a blog I wrote reflecting on the…
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Sustainable Ophthalmology Scholarship in Wales - first Diary Entry

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25 Oct 2019
by
Alexander Chiu
Hi Sustainability Friends!!! I am Dr Alexander Chiu, ST6 trainee in Wales Deanery. I am proud and excited to be chosen to be the first Sustainable Ophthalmology Scholar in Wales. I started this…
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Update from our first W.I.S.E. Sustainability Scholar in Ophthalmology

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16 Oct 2019
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
Clare Morgan is CSH's first W.I.S.E. (Wales, Ireland, Scotland England) Sustainable Ophthalmology Scholar in Scotland supported by a grant from Bausch and Lomb during 2019. Bausch and Lomb’s funding…