Article: Environmental impact of Personal Protective Equipment supplied to health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.
Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health
Useful information resource / infographic about different inhalers and the main differences between them - including environmental impact.
Could be helpful in teaching...
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 fo
Health Care Without Harm and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments partnered on the “Nurses Climate Challenge” with the aim of nurses educating 5,000 health professionals on climate and h
Health Care’s Climate Footprint: How the Health Secto
Resources on climate change and health have been developed by the Faculty of Public Health Sustainable Development Special Interest Group.
RCN resources to use in your workplace to raise awareness of appropriate glove use - these include a poster, a leaflet and a selfie board.
The University of Brighton School of Health Sciences hosts a sustainability conference every year. Videos and slides from previous events are available here:
The University of Westminster has published an excellent explanatory document on social prescription.
Sustainability has been recognised as a domain of quality in healthcare, and building it into quality improvement (QI) is a practical way to drive incremental change towards a more ethical, sustain
