“I’ve made a few changes in the hospital I work in, and we estimate an annual saving of about a quarter of a million pounds. If nothing else, we can’t afford not to be green.”
Single-use products…
The next Art, Drama and Music Therapies Susnet Event will be held on Thursday 14th November from 7pm to 8pm. Guest speakers Emily Sheppard & Rebekah Price will bepresenting the findings of a small…
Check out this very practical BMJ article "Optimising inhaled therapies in asthma" in our resource section. Useful for anyone working with patients with asthma. Especially in primary care.
Make healthcare more sustainable with this innovative carbon footprint calculator! Drawing on data from the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition's Care Pathways, it estimates the carbon emissions (kgCO2e)…
Plastics, the chemicals they are made of and the fossil fuels that produce them are harming human health. Healthcare is contributing to the evolving human and planetary health crisis, we need to turn…
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In July, experts from across the health sector joined together in a whiteboarding session to discuss processes for understanding and managing climate risk to the health system, local and…
KidneyX Sustainability Prize - KidneyX
The Opportunity
The sustainability challenges in the treatment of kidney diseases present an opportunity for innovation and collaboration in treatment…
Does anyone have any experience of re-usable patient warming blankets (as opposed to the disposable type eg "Bair Hugger"TM)? Our procurement team have asked me to look into this, but mentioned that…
Five years ago, my late father was in hospital for over a month following a severe stroke. After visiting him I used to head down the corridor to a cafe which was adjacent to a lovely garden (although…