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There is a climate emergency and need to achieve 45% reduction in Carbon emission by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°c. The UK
NHS has a national environmental sustainability target to…
Ambitious research project by third Year undergraduate students at the University of Southampton and in partnership with the
Royal College of Podiatry; exploring the current beliefs of sustainability…
Key learning point:
Switching to the 44 to 1 concentration cans is a relatively easy process at negligible cost and may be a simpler method of reducing concentrate solution storage without…
Published date
May 2011
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by
Fraser Campbell, Renal Technician, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Abstract
Climate change represents a major global public health threat. The very provision of healthcare itself has a significant untoward effect on the environment, to which kidney care is likely…
Key learning point"We advocate that every renal unit both in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe considers salvaging reject water as it offers a major opportunity to reduce not only the…
Published date
May 2010
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by
Connor, A., Milne, S., Owen, A., Boyle, G., Mortimer, F., & Stevens, P.
This is a practical tool for those involved in commissioning or building a new dialysis unit, or retrofitting an existing unit, to help with including sustainable features in the design.
Developed…
Chen, M., Zhou, R., Du, C. et al. Int Urol Nephrol (2016). doi:10.1007/s11255-016-1418-5
This study aimed to determine the carbon footprints of peritoneal dialysis (PD) with the different…
Article published last week in CJASN: "Heat stress nephropathy may represent one of the first epidemics due to global warming."
ABSTRACT:
Climate change has led to significant rise of…
Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. (2015) 30 (6): 1018-1027.
Approximately 2 million chronic haemodialysis patients produce over 2 000 000 tons of waste per year that includes about 600 000 tons of…
