Calling all Occupational Therapists in the UK and internationally, students, apprentices and associates, if you are a member of The Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) you can join as many…
Something a bit different for any pharmacists in the network as well as oncologists — and well worth a look if you work in or alongside an aseptic unit. This paper by Chabane, Kroemer and colleagues,…
HiI'm interested in what re-useable PPE solutions exist and are working today in nuclear medicine and radiology, and meet current IPC and radiation protection guidelines. Does your centre have a…
Problem spaceWhat we prescribe saves lives, but how we prescribe damages the planet. Healthcare accounts for approximately 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and across health systems…
A recent paper (Jia et al. European Radiology (2026) 36:2186–2197, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-025-12023-z) looks at the emissions caused by medical imaging data storage. Although data storage is…
Here are a couple of useful resources for benchmarking carbon emissions. The Lancet has recently published Lancet MedZero which promises to be a very useful website. Its focus is not currently…
Last year a consortium led by J R of the Masaryk University in Czechia with 4 other partner organisations including ECRIN, University College Cork, the University of Nicosia and Universidade Nova de…
Two recent papers — one inLancet Oncology (Bryant et al., 2024) and one inLancet Planetary Health (Malmberg et al., 2024) — have looked at the environmental impact of how we prescribe checkpoint…
PPE – we use it a lot in our imaging departments, both for radiation protection and infection control. Much of it is single use, and although its carbon footprint may not be as large as other aspects…
Hi everyone,Highlighting this SusQI case study from 2024 which I’m sure will be relevant to many oncology inpatient wards. The team at the Sheffield Macmillan Unit for Palliative Care — an 18-bedded…