A Network for everyone interested in improving the environmental sustainability of operating theatres.

Please can you complete our survey on reducing desflurane/nitrous oxide?

We are keen to get a snapshot of how people are trying to reduce the use of desflurane and nitrous oxide in their workplace.

Plast

Check out our article examining plastics in healthcare published today in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine- we found 101 pieces si

Recycling volatile anaesthetic agents - Association of Anaesthetists Innovation award winner 2020

For those of you that weren't at the Association of Anaesthetists Winter Scientific Meeting earlier this month, or haven't seen any of my posts on

Single use Chloraprep introduction opinions

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

Opportunity to write an e-learning module for sustainable anaesthesia

Keen to contribute to some e-learning resources on

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.

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.

Environmental Fellow update

It’s so great to see enthusiasm building and I’m doing my best to respond to queries and suggestions that you have all raised so far. Here’s

Sustainable Ophthalmology Scholarship in Wales - first Diary Entry

Hi Sustainability Friends!!!

NEW Association of Anaesthetists Green Star Awards

What a whirlwind couple of months it has been! There seems to be a real appetite for sustainable anaesthesia now which is great to see.

New Anaesthetists Environmental Champions Network

Environmental champions are being sought for every anaesthetic department in the UK and Ireland.

Interview with Chantelle Rizan: a surgeon raising the profile of research in Sustainability in Surgery

Hi, in what I hope will be the first in an occasional series of interviews(!), I recently had the opportunity to ask Chantelle Rizan about her rese

Update from our first W.I.S.E. Sustainability Scholar in Ophthalmology

Clare Morgan is CSH's first W.I.S.E.

Support from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for Sustainable Surgery PhD

We are delighted that our CSH Sustainable Surgery Fellow,

We need to talk about Des...

I thought members of the network may be interested in hearing about our work at Raigmore Hospital, where we managed to reduce our carbon emissions

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

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

Job advertisement: Fellow in environmentally sustainable anaesthesia 2020-21

Applications are now open for the 2020-21 fellowship in environmentally sustainable anaesthesia (closing date 29 September).

Senior Clinical Auditor, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

We are just starting to try and introduce and rationalise waste recycling into theatres (the trust does not recycle anything!). If anyone els

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Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the Operating Theatre: A Multicentre Quality Improvement Report

What provision is there for recycling within your operating theatre?

Journal of perioperative practice

June, 2013

New to thinking about Sustainability in Operating Theatres? A couple of useful review articles (one short, one long)….

Environmentalism in surgical practice. Weiss, A et al. Current Problems in Surgery. April 2016; 53 (4): 165-205

April, 2016

Anaesthetic gas - monitoring practice and motivating change

I am an anaesthetist and recently visited the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare while on sabbatical. Thank you to Rachel and Frances for meeting with me. I have attached a copy of a behaviour change project i am undertaking in my anaesthetic department.

Matthew Jenks and OraTaiao (New Zealand Climate and Health Council)

June, 2018

Syringes and Sustainability: Planet, People, Profit

Sustainability in Ophthalmology

In Sustainability in Ophthalmology the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calls for leadership from the profession and the healthcare industry to develop best practice and integrate these into our service redesign. This is a position paper from the College, designed for Ophthalmologists, alli

Royal College of Ophthalmologists

April, 2013

Introducing recycling into the operating theatres (Oxford case study)

The Oxford University Hospitals Trust has reduced the amount of waste going to landfill or incineration by introducing recycling into the operating theatre setting. Previously all waste from clinical areas was disposed of via orange clinical waste bags.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

April, 2012

AAGBI environment pages

The AAGBI’s Anaesthesia and the environment section of their website.

AAGBI

Reducing the Environmental Impact of the Operating Theatre

This is a poster I presented to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Orlando, Florida in December 2010, following work I'd done in the day theatre suite of Jersey General Hospital.

Frank Swinton

November, 2010

SAP - sustainable action planning resources for clinical teams

SAP is a programme to support clinical teams in taking action for sustainability. Structured around two facilitated workshops, SAP helps front-line staff to learn about sustainable healthcare, focus in on their priorities and put together a green action plan. The action plan can then

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

February, 2010