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Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023. Aims:To reduce the number of unnecessary coagulation samples in both Basingstoke and Winchester Emergency…

The study analyses the impact of service provision at different locations on health outcomes, cost of service, carbon emissions and patients and their families.

Marc Beaumont, sustainability lead from Hull University teaching hospital explains how his multi-disciplinary team achieved an 87% reduction in their Entonox emissions with an additional cost saving…

This document has a set of case studies from UK medical schools that have been trying out ways of teaching medical students about the links between climate, sustainability and health. Most of the ones…

Two final year medical students in Oxford took part in a two-week special study module (SSM) on “Sustainable Healthcare” in 2011-12. The students each chose to focus on one of the four dimensions of…

We ran a 5 week SSC for medical students May - June 2011. It was a full time SSC where the majority of time was spent on group project work and for three hours per week students attended tutorials…

Key learning point: Central Acid Delivery can reduce acid and packaging waste, saving just over 16,000 kg of CO2 annually as well as over £23,000 per year Setting/Patient Group: Dialysis…

Key learning point: Offering telephone consultations to patients offers social and environmental benefits. Patients also reported an increased sense of empowerment and autonomy in the successful…

Key learning point: Although an upfront expense, upgrading older water treatment systems offers significant environmental and financial savings. Furthermore, the upgrade saves nursing time and…