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The cataract surgery audit tool ‘Eyefficiency’ was designed to identify opportunities for sites to minimize the footprint of cataract surgical services and to increase access to cataract surgery for…
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May 2020
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Thiel, C. L., Cassels-Brown, A., Goel, H., Stancliffe, R., Steinbach, I., Thomas, P., & Vendries, J.
Intravenous paracetamol (acetaminophen) - 12 times more carbon emissions than the oral
Glass vials - higher greenhouse gas emissions than plastic
"Intravenous administration should be reserved…
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January 2024
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Davies, J. F., McAlister, S., Eckelman, M. J., McGain, F., Seglenieks, R., Gutman, E. N., Groome, J., Palipane, N., Latoff, K., Nielsen, D., Sherman, J. D., & TRA2SH, GASP, and WAAREN collaborators
Well worth a read by anyone involved in prescribing, deprescribing and caring for patients with multiple long term conditions.
This NIHR alert is a "plain English" summary of a number of recent…
This report presents an overview of how doctors' efforts between 2008 and 2020 have resulted in the institutionalisation of sustainable healthcare as a key priority for the NHS in England.
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Quality improvement (QI) projects are a mandatory part of postgraduate medical training in the UK and graduating medical students must be competent in QI theory. We evaluated an educational toolkit…
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Spooner, R., Stanford, V., Parslow-Williams, S., Mortimer, F., & Leedham-Green, K.
Interventions that consider climate change, sustainability, and nature should be integral to health system functioning. Placing sustainability at the core of the NHS’s future offers opportunities to…
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The healthcare sector is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Gases that contribute to climate change include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons.…
For a greener ICU, we call for healthcare researchers to measure the environmental benefits of interventions to limit low-value care, and for healthcare practitioners to increase implementation of…
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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
TheLancetCountdown is an international research collaboration that independently monitors the evolving impacts of climate change on health, and the emerging health opportunities of climate action. In…
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November 2023
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Marina Romanello, Claudia di Napoli, Carole Green, Harry Kennard, Pete Lampard, Daniel Scamman, et al.
