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

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We are in contact with a Member of the European Parliament who is willing to challenge outdated EU legislation which is proving a barrier to sustai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

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.

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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Browse this Networks's Resources in the Resource Library

The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital

This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.

Highlights:

Journal of Cleaner Production

December, 2020

Environmental impact of PPE in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Article: Environmental impact of Personal Protective Equipment supplied to health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chantelle Rizan, Malcolm Reed, Mahmood F Bhutta

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

December, 2020

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

CFMS HEART: NATIONAL REPORT ON PLANETARY HEALTH EDUCATION 2021

The Canadian Federation of Medical Students Health and Environment Adaptive Reponse Task Force recently released this report:

Climate Change Urgency and Action webinar series

The Intensive Care Society has a fantastic lineup of speakers for a weekly lunchtime (one hour) webinar series called Climate Change Urgency and Ac

CSH is hiring! Specialities Lead & Networks Coordinator

We are creating two new roles in my team at CSH - if you would like to help us work with clinical specialties and/or develop our online networks, please get in touch!

Sustainable Healthcare Reading List

Hi all, I work in the sustainability team for my Trust and I'm collaborating with our libraries to curate a sustainable healthcare reading list for

New Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare elearning programme

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare has partnered with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh)(link is external) to develop elearning resources designed to equip healthcare workers with the knowledge and skills they need to deliver healthcare that is financially, socially, and environmentally sustainable.