The Association of British Dispensing Opticians has developed a tool for optical practices to help them assess their progress on the journey towards sustainability.
Practices can use this to…
UK Attitudes towards waste in Cataract Surgery
Cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the UK, and…
The aim of the project was to reduce linen usage by 30% at the New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow by 31st January 2022.
A PDSA cycle was adopted to determine whether the patient felt comfortable…
The World Congress of Nephrology 2022 is taking place next week in Malaysia and online. The organisers, the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), are keen for environmental sustainability to be…
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With virtual meetings on MS Teams being…
Some of our RDUs are not suitable for central acid, and even those that are will require a business case. Meantime we were hoping to achieve carbon and cost savings through reviewing our acid supplies…
Anyone out there with a good idea for reducing the carbon footprint of an element of your kidney care service? The Kidney MedTech Competition offers six prizes, worth £30,000, to accelerate research…
Incremental haemodialysis (IHD), in which dialysis dose is adjusted to take into account residual kidney function (RKF) usually by starting dialysis twice rather than thrice weekly, has been…
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgery in the world and the UK. Therefore, there are a number of papers looking at carbon footprint of cataract surgery and ways to reduce it.
In…
I'm co-leading the "Action Learning and Education" workstream of the new UKKA Sustainable Kidney Care committee, together with Mark Harber (nephrologist in London). We're looking for a few volunteers…