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Good practice guidance for healthcare professionals in England.This guidance provides four guiding principles for medicines optimisation that will help all healthcare professionals to support patients…
Realising the health benefits of acting on air pollution
This report on air pollution describes the current problem, the reasons it exists and the critical need to resolve it, and includes high…
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Objectives:This study aimed to better understand the carbon emission impact of haemodialysis (HD) throughout Australia by determining its…
This is the most recent carbon/natural resources footprint of health and social care in England, based on 2017 data. Of note, the greenhouse gas emissions from metered dose inhalers are estimated at…
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust revolutionised patient care while championing environmental responsibility by adopting Open Medical's PathpointⓇ Virtual Fracture Clinic. Their digitally…
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…
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Emma Christmas & Sarah Noble – Consultants in Emergency Medicine,
Keele University Medical School educators have developed their own cases based around four prominent types of waste within the NHS: food, pharmaceutical, clinical and fuel, which they have given…
Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE)
We are excited to share with you the recently developed GCCHE online knowledge bankthat includes resources for educators on the health…
Short animation to raise awareness of the NHS contribution to environmental issues such as climate change and air pollution, and encourage health professionals to look for environmentally friendly…
We describe a clinical-skills based approach to teaching medical and public health students the health effects of climate change. This resource presents eleven simulation exercises used with over 100…
