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This study focussed on quantifying the environmental burden of a standard dental treatment, specifically a tooth extraction, and on identifying the environmental impact of the process.The greatest…
Published date
June 2025
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Paul Künzle, Ariadne Charis Frank, Sebastian Paris
Hospital services and care pathways have a large climate impact. Quantifying the carbon footprint and identifying hotspots enables targeted and prioritized mitigation efforts. Even for similar…
The article proposes some ways in which carbon footprints can be used to inform strategy for sustainable healthcare and highlights areas to apply caution.
Published date
September 2024
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Chantelle Rizan, Cassandra Thiel, and Mahmood F Bhutta
What you need to know:
- Pills are likely to have a reduced environmental impact compared with an equivalent dose of liquid medication, with less packaging and less wasted medicine
- Pill swallowing…
Open access study.
Study objective: To understand whether self-sampling can reduce carbon emissions (CO2e) from the NHS cervical screening programme (NHSCSP) by comparing the carbon footprint of…
Published date
November 2023
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Whittaker M, Davies JC, Sargent A, Sawyer M, Crosbie EJ
New paper looking at the Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) of all products and processes involved in the manufacture and use of Penthrox. *Not open access
Results:This LCIA found that Penthrox…