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These slides and video recording are from the Critical Care Susnet Sustainable PPE session focused on gloves, along with the Intensive Care Society Gloves Off posters and implementation guide.

Disposable gloves are one of the biggest environmental hotspots in hospital, with more than 100 used per patient per day in intensive care. Despite this usage there are many circumstances where glove…

Aims: Clinical laboratories play a vital role in healthcare, yet their operations contribute to resource consumption, waste generation, and greenhouse gas emissions. The need for sustainable practices…

Open access article looking at the patient, hospital and environmental cost of unnecessary bloodwork in general surgery inpatients at Vancouver General Hospital. The article estimates the carbon…

Critical Care Susnet Networking presentation Speaker - Dr Nicole Hunfeld, PhD, PharmD Critical Care Topic - Material flow analysis and carbon hotspots in intensive care Video recording…

The key to environmental footprint improvement in healthcare and critical care uses the framework: avoiding, reducing, reusing, and recycling without compromising safe, quality care, with simultaneous…

This Swedish life cycle assessment by Hemberg et al. (2023) compares single-use and reusable central venous catheter insertion kits, including metal, plastic and textiles items. In contrast to a 2012…

This project was completed as part of the Northamptonshire 2022 Green Team Competition Read our sustainability project on the positive impact reducing the administration of unnecessary doses of…

SusQI project completed as part of Gloucestershire Hospital NHS FT Green Team Competition 2022 by the Haematology team. Team members: Gary Parfitt (Associate Practitioner) Lucy Campbell…

Building designs for NICU - including ecological sustainability and green spaces, plant, outdoor areas and views of nature for reduced stress levels for staff and patients.