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Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Green Team Competition.
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Emma Baker and Lucy Wimmer, Hand Therapy Team Leads Setting / patent…
Published date
February 2024
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Emma Baker and Lucy Wimmer, Hand Therapy Team Leads
Abstract
BackgroundHuman health is inextricably linked to planetary health. The desire to nurture and protect both concurrently requires the mitigation of healthcare-associated environmental harms…
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January 2024
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Walpole S, Popat A, Blakey EP, Holden E, Whittaker B, Saggu R, Fennell-Wells A, Armit K & Hothi D
Sustainability in dentistry: Leading for change is a scoping review to inform and engage the dental profession, dental industry, and wider oral health and dental care infrastructure on the…
Environmental outcomes: Carbon footprinting for healthcare.
This document will show you how to work out a carbon footprint of a service, system or pathway using updated greenhouse gas emission…
Project completed as part of The Christies 2022 Green Team Competition.
Project Lead: Alex Langstaff CNS Palliative & Supportive Care
Winner of Green Team Competition!
Patients when…
Social prescribing services for mental healthcare create links with support in the community for people using primary care. Social prescribing services may reduce future healthcare use, and therefore…
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March 2016
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Maughan, D., Patel, A., Parveen, T., Braithwaite, I., Cook, J., Lillywhite, R., and Cooke, M.
A survey was conducted in the UK investigating communication methods used by staff to inform and remind patients about appointments.Increased number of communication methods used was associated with a…
Awareness about the waste that occurs throughout clinical care is increasing. The wasteful use of clinical resources suggests a need to improve sustainability in health care, given the current context…
Sustainable Healthcare Education—a network of academics, doctors, and health-care students—has developed three simple learning objectives to communicate the links between medical practice and a more…
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November 2014
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Thompson, T., Walpole, S., Braithwaite, I., Inman, A., Barna, S., and Mortimer, F.
