Bringing together patients, clinicians, renal technicians and others to share ideas for sustainable kidney care.

Bradford and Bristol Royal share the 2013 Green Nephrology Award

The 2013 Green Nephrology Award (for sustainability initiatives in kidney units) went to joint winners, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Bradford Teaching Hospitals. Both kidney units demonstrated significant environmental as well as financial savings, while maintaining the quality of care for dialysis patients.

Green Nephrology Awards 2013 - winning entries

Joint winners of the 2013 Green Nephrology Awards - Bristol Royal Hospital for Children for a water saving project initiated by Charge Nurse, Dan Speakman, and Bradford Teaching Hospitals for reduction in the use of dialysate through using the "autoflow" facility on dialysis machines.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

August, 2013

Don't forget to register for the Green Nephrology Summit on 25 September

This is the yearly get-together of the Green Nephrology Network, where ideas and experiences are exchanged for sustainable kidney care. Everyone is welcome. This year's programme covers best practice examples such as laboratory eGFR screening and exercise programmes in CKD, as well as debates on how to get your clinical director on board, building patient networks, and whether to abandon plastic cannisters of acid concentrate in favour of bulk systems.

Linking energy saving to patient experience

Interesting to see this case study from Barts - lots of money saved by simple energy saving, but staff only changed behaviour after the link to pat

About the Green Nephrology Network

What will kidney care look like in 10 or 15 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS?

Improving Chances of Graft Survival

A theory to investigate or debunk.

Acid delivery - powder vs concentrate?

Does anyone have experience of using powder for local mixing of acid for haemodialysis?

CleanMed Europe social media platforms - follow and join the conversation

There's now a facebook page and twitter account for September's CleanMed Europe conference - if you use social media, do follow them for new blogs as they published, along with news items and reports. Recently published are Rachel Stancliffe and Mahmood Bhutta's blog on whether should health professionals should lead on sustainability and Frances Mortimer's blog on Sustainable Clinical Practice.

You can also use these platforms to make contact with others who will be attending the conference, share your ideas, case studies and as a platform for online discussions about sustainable healthcare and how we can get to where we want to be.

The conference website is at http://www.cleanmedeurope.org/.

Overcoming barriers in Green Nephrology

In the survey of Green Nephrology Local Representatives in 2010, Local Reps identified some of the barriers that can prevent them from seeing throu

Green Nephrology Summit 2013 - registrations open!

You can now register for this year's annual get together of the Green Nephrology Network.

EU legislation a barrier to sustainable actions?

We are in contact with a Member of the European Parliament who is willing to challenge outdated EU legislation which is proving a barrier to sustai

Green Nephrology Awards 2013 - open to entries

Kidney units are invited to share their local successes via this year's Green Nephrology Awards. Shortlisted entries will be presented in poster format at the CleanMed Europe conference 17-19th September (in Oxford), and at the Green Nephrology Summit on 25th September (at Guy’s Hospital in London). Awards for outstanding entries will be presented at the Summit.

Green Nephrology award entry template 2013

The 2013 Awards are open to all kidney units or providers of kidney care, who may enter one or more local initiatives that demonstrate a benefit to the environmental sustainability of kidney care.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

April, 2013

Telephone Transplant Clinics

We're working towards setting up a telephone transplant clinic service at the South West Transplant Centre.

Examples of diabetes-renal service integration?

Scoping out options for sustainable service redesign in Reading and they are interested in joining up services for diabetic patients with CKD.

CleanMed 2013 - call for case studies

CSH is hosting this year's CleanMed Europe conference, 17-19 September 2013.

climate change, global kidney health and the ISN

In his talk at the global health session of the Renal Association-BTS Congress last month, Professor John Feehally, president of the International

Australian colleagues launch Green Dialysis website

The strap line for the new Green Dialysis website is "eco-dialysis… a more thoughtful future". http://greendialysis.org/ documents the eco-journey of the Barwon Health Renal Service, which began with helping home haemodialysis patients to cut their water bills.

New additions to our NHS Forest for NHS Sustainability day

Hi All

NHS Forest 2 Trees at 2 pm

Junior Doctor Sustainability Fellow

My name is Amy and I am the junior doctor ‘Sustainability Fellow’ for the Severn Deanery. It is a new post this year so I have a blank slate to work with. It is a post I have taken on in addition to being a full time junior doctor. My job description is to use my role as a clinician to help promote sustainable working practices in the deanery and thus reduce carbon emissions.

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The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.

July, 2020

Recording: National Allied Health Professions Sustainability Webinar

This is a recording of the AHP Sustainability webinar from June 18th 2020, part of the National Allied Health Professions fornightly webinar series.

June, 2020

Green Nephrology review article

John Agar and Katherine Barraclough have produced a fantastic review looking at the impacts of environmental change on kidney health as well as the environmental damage caused by kidney services (especially dialysis) and strategies to mitigate this.

Nature Reviews Nephrology

February, 2020

Prescribing Movement resource

This toolkit gives you everything you need for a 1 minute, 5 minute and even more minute conversation, complete with step-by-step guides, behavioural change insights and all the evidence to back it up.

Moving Medicine

January, 2020

Health Care’s Climate Footprint Report HCWH / ARUP

Health Care’s Climate Footprint: How the Health Sector Contributes to the Global Climate Crisis and Opportunities for Action.

September, 2019

Outpatients: the future – adding value through sustainability

The Royal College of Physicians published a new report 'Outpatients: the future – adding value through sustainability' which seeks to re-evaluate the purpose of outpatient care and align those objectives with modern-day living and expectations.

November, 2018

RCP video on NHS environmental impact

Short animation to raise awareness of the NHS contribution to environmental issues such as climate change and air pollution, and encourage health professionals to look for environmentally friendly ways to practise.

Royal College of Physicians

September, 2018

Sustainability in Quality Improvement learning resources

Sustainability has been recognised as a domain of quality in healthcare, and building it into quality improvement (QI) is a practical way to drive incremental change towards a more ethical, sustainable health system.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2017

The carbon footprints of home and in-center peritoneal dialysis in China

Chen, M., Zhou, R., Du, C. et al. Int Urol Nephrol (2016). doi:10.1007/s11255-016-1418-5

This study aimed to determine the carbon footprints of peritoneal dialysis (PD) with the different modalities and treatment regimes.

Chen, M. et al

November, 2016

Eco-dialysis: the financial and ecological costs of dialysis waste products: is a ‘cradle-to-cradle’ model feasible for planet-friendly haemodialysis waste management?

Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. (2015) 30 (6): 1018-1027.

Approximately 2 million chronic haemodialysis patients produce over 2 000 000 tons of waste per year that includes about 600 000 tons of potentially hazardous waste.

Piccoli G. et al, NDT

March, 2015

Invitation for Doctors working in Europe to complete Survey

Students from the University of Amsterdam would like to hear from you regarding COVID-19 induced e-health implementation and its contrib

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada.

'Upcycling' dialysis filters?

I hadn't realised that discarded kidney dialysis filters are being repurposed to make pure water in some places in Africa, Asia and Latin Amer

AHP Sustainability Survey: Deadline Extended Until 31st July

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey has 11 questions and should take about 5-15 minutes to complete:

AHP Sustainability Survey: Four Days Left

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey is designed to help understand how Allied Health Professionals are addressing sustainability issue

Kidney patient leaflet re-published

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.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: CSH Education Lead for Quality Improvement

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is recruiting to a new full-time, permanent position based at least two days per week in our office in Oxford. Application deadline 10 February.