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

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

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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.

NHS Sustainability Day - Spring Switch off Day and Eco-Rhyme Competition

We are celebrating Sustainability Day by promoting 2 green initiatives.

Green Nephrology and Cost Savings - Slides

Slides presented by Dr Ian Stott at the Renal Association Clinical Directors' Forum, March 2013

Ian Stott

February, 2013

Green Nephrology Slides - Feb 2013

A collection of slides introducing sustainable healthcare and Green Nephrology

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

February, 2013

Cumulative Savings from Green Nephrology Innovations - poster presented at RA-BTS Congress 2013

Green Nephrology case studies are prepared in collaboration with renal units to document local innovations with environmental benefits, together with information to support their replication elsewhere. The majority of case studies describe financial as well as environmental benefits.

Mortimer F, Connor A, Stott I

February, 2013

Can we help the NHS solve the "Nicholson challenge"?

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NHS Sustainability Day - Nine Award Categories Announced!

With less than 30 days to go to NHS Sustainability Day on Thursday 28th March the final countdown is on and today the nine award categories for this years event have been announced. All categories have been individually sponsored and each winning Trust will receive a unique trophy and be showcased on the website.

Possible Green Nephrology Fellowship opportunity 2013-16

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare may soon be appointing to a new Green Nephrology Fellowship, linked to “a highly visible demonstration project showcasing radical redesign of a clinical service to deliver sustainable patient-centred care”.

Renal Dialysis Unit - Benchmarks

We have a 766 m2, 28 station renal unit that is not linked to any other hospital building.

Call for Expressions of Interest for Funding to Improve Energy Efficiency in the NHS

NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts can bid for a share of £50 million capital funding to invest during 2013-14. The funding will support new and innovative projects to improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and increase resilience to climate change.

Initial expression of interest bids must be submitted by 28 February 2013.

BMJ: NHS could save £1bn by adopting green strategies used in kidney units

Green Nephrology in the BMJ! Commenting on a Green Nephrology study into savings from green initiatives in kidney units, National Clinical Director for Kidney Care, Dr Donal O'Donoghue, said "it’s not unreasonable to expect approaching £1 billion per year saving if the enthusiasm and focused work of the kidney community spread across the whole NHS."

Counting the carbon cost of care

The NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy has set targets for the reduction of GHG emissions within the NHS. If we are to meet these challenging targets, our health economists will have to become as familiar with the rationing of healthcare of the basis of carbon as they presently are with financial resources. A scary thought? Perhaps for them - but it shouldn't be for clinicians. But who will work out how to do these carbon accounts?

Anyone else using central delivery of acid for haemodialysis?

The British Journal of Renal Medicine is interested in articles about local green initiatives.

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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

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

Climate Change and the Emergent Epidemic of CKD from Heat Stress in Rural Communities: The Case for Heat Stress Nephropathy

Article published last week in CJASN: "Heat stress nephropathy may represent one of the first epidemics due to global warming."

ABSTRACT:

Glaser, J. et al, CJASN

May, 2016

Sustainable Specialties video - the Greening of Nephrology

A short video introducing the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare's work in supporting clinical specialties to improve sustainability. This video focuses on initiatives in kidney care, where the approach was first pioneered.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

September, 2013

Case study: dry powder concentrate and disinfection protocol

The dialysis unit in Central Manchester has reduced delivery miles by 75% (saving 8.3 tonnes CO2e) by switching to dry powder concentrate for haemodialysis. Discontinuing morning disinfection cycles has saved on energy and water use.

Sustainable Development Unit, NHS England

June, 2015

Green Nephrology patient leaflet

What is Green Nephrology, why is it important to kidney patients, and how can patients, carers and local Kidney Patients' Associations get involved?

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare & NKF

February, 2015

CSH Publications list

Published reports and articles by CSH and CSH staff, including a number of articles on aspects of Green Nephrology.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

September, 2014

We're scaling up to carbon-neutral healthcare

The recent huge interest in climate change has created an unprecedented demand for our charity to help people to take action.

Reflections on training with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

Hello! Me and a couple of colleagues from the Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership (KQuIP) went to the CSH sustainable QI training day last month.

UNDP and SPHS member agencies seek consultancy to develop the Sustainable Procurement Index for Health (SPIH)

This is as a globally established, recognized and adaptable measurement tool for policy makers, manufacturers, suppliers, procurers, and health car

Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for wides

Simon Stevens shores up public health provision; implications for Sustainable Healthcare

As reported in this weeks' BMJ, Simon Stevens, has said that the NHS will commission public services in areas where local authorities are allocatin

Climate advocacy networking

Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected.

Acid concentrate dilution

From the sustainability session discussions at the recent ART conference it was identified that there are still a significant number of UK trusts u

"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing.

Sustainability sessions at the Association of Renal Technologists Conference 2018

Great presentation by Dr Frances Mortimer at the recent ART conference in Grantham on the challenges we face to reduce our impact on resources&nbsp

International Green Nephrology

The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) has expressed an interest in supporting collective efforts to improve the environmental sustainabilit

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