Respiratory care has some of the biggest problems (inhalers) and many good solutions for sustainable healthcare.

Greener AHP Hub launched

Yesterday saw the launch of the Greener AHP Hub. This was

Greener AHP Hub

The Greener AHP Hub is a resource for Allied Health Professionals. It provides information and clear actionable steps which AHPs can take to improve their own environmental sustainability. The hub complements the

NHS England

October, 2021

URGENT - COP26

I wanted to say Hello! I'm Hayley Pinto - I have just joined CSH as the new Education and Training lead.

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

Remote Consultations: Do they reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Your Guide to calculating the Answer

This guide and carbon calculator have been developed by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in collaboration with PD Transformation and funded through Q by the Health Foundation and NHS England and NHS Improvement.

September, 2021

A Simple Sustainability Audit - would you like to join us?

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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!

Oxygen waste

Here’s a very short but useful article about oxygen waste from turning the flow all the way up to the top (past 15 l/min) which is commonly done:

Sustainable Spirometry?

Hi all,

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

GREEN-ICU study seeking volunteers for survey and online interviews

The GREEN-ICU research study is seeking views o

Gloucester Hospitals Respiratory Care Guidelines

Dear All,

This maybe useful to those interested in producing local guidelines on environmentally friendly inhaler use.

Sustainable Paediatric Respiratory Care

Free podcast on sustainable paediatric respiratory care with Paediatric Trainees Kirsten Dykes and Rosie Spooner.

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.

framework for sustainable inhaler practices in GP

SSC report + recorded workshop
- background/context of sustainable respiratory care
- summary of interviews with practice patients
- framework for action/SusQI projects in GP

May, 2021

Asthma and Climate Change: European Respiratory Society Webinar

The ERS held a webinar on World Asthma day last week, and released a statement alongside. Link here to YouTube

Online survey and interview for GREEN-ICU research project

The GREEN-ICU research team is exploring ways t

Help: carbon footprint of medical oxygen?

Hi network,

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

Remote Consultations: Do they reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Your Guide to calculating the Answer

September, 2021

New GP contract incentivises lower carbon inhalers

The new GP contract published last week includes a new incentive to encourage lower carbon inhalers.

Green Inhaler website

This patient- and clinician-facing website gives guidance on choosing inhalers with lower environmental impact - something which is now included in the BTS asthma guidelines.

Dr Alex Wilkinson

September, 2019

New BTS asthma guidelines encourage use of low-GWP inhalers

Section 8.6 of the new BTS/SIGN Guideline for the management of asthma highlights the environmental impact of metered dose inhalers (pMDI) and recommends that inhalers with low global-warming potential (GWP) should be used when likely to be equally effective.

British Thoracic Society

July, 2019

Asthma UK inhaler videos

Are you confident in teaching patients how to use their inhalers? The first step in improving environmental sustainability of inhaler use is to ensure that people use the correct technique to get the drug to where it is needed.

Asthma UK

July, 2019

NICE encourages use of greener asthma inhalers

"People with asthma will be helped to choose the inhaler that is best for them, and best for the environment, by a new patient decision aid from NI

Sustainability in QI - the time has come!

Health systems are in constant need of improvement - and in some cases total redesign.

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

Reducing the carbon footprint of hospital-based care

Nephrologist, Charlie Tomson, gives an overview of the challenge of reducing carbon in the NHS and potential solutions - from energy and waste reduction to Sustainable Care Pathways.

Tomson, C., Future Hospital Journal

February, 2015

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Smoking ban - policy reunion

The Institute for Government held a policy reunion of the key players that were involved in policies to reduce tobacco use in England, which lead to the enactment of the ban on smoking in public places in 2005.

Panel

Institute for Government

April, 2011

Sustainable COPD Summit 23.3.2012 - Meeting Note

The first meeting of the Sustainable Respiratory Care programme: a diverse group (including respiratory physicians, GPs, nurses, academics, industry representatives, commissioners and sustainability experts) identified priority areas for action in care for patients with COPD.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

February, 2012

Sustainable Anaesthesia

This is a good starting point for anaesthetists with an interest in the impact their care is having on the carbon footprint of the NHS, and what actions can be taken to reduce that impact.

Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland

Respiratory project proposal

A summary of the sustainable COPD project

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

August, 2011

BTS position statement on the environment and lung health

In case you didn't see it, the British Thoracic Society released its

Unmask My City: Anti-air pollution campaign launched in Europe

The anti-air pollution campaign 'Unmask My City' has been launched today, 2nd May, coinci

Harvard school of public health climate change and health podcasts

These 15/20 minute entry-level podcasts recorded in February 2017 look at what we know about the way in which climate change affects health and the

Naturally Healthy?

On 2nd March CSH and the Ecosystems Knowledge Network delivered a Valuing Nature Programme event to ensure that tools and methods are available to

Atlas on Children's Health and the Environment

The first of these World Health Organisation reports, Inheriting the World, was published in 2004. This is new edition, Inheriting a Sustaina

Breaking the Fever: Sustainability and climate change in the NHS

The RCP launched a new publication titled 'Breaking the Fever' at the Medicine 2017 conference last week.

Royal College of Physicians introduce a sustainability theme to Tell us your Story

Afternoon all

Indoor air pollution expertise required

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is looking to recruit experts on indoor air pollution to join their Public H

Green Ward Competition at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

Dartford and Gravesham's second Green Ward Competition will be launched on NHS Sustainability Day. With the support of CSH clinical staff, te

National health organisations make their commitments to sustainable development

The Department of Health and eight major health organisations have stated their organisational commitments to deliver a socially and environmentall

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This patient- and clinician-facing website gives guidance on choosing inhalers with lower environmental impact - something which is now included in the BTS asthma guidelines.

Dr Alex Wilkinson

September, 2019

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