Early mobilisation after open heart surgery reduced ventilation days by a mean of 4 days and reduced cardiac intensive care stay by a mean of 6 days.
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.
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.
OTnews article by Ben Whittaker and Sonia Roschnik exploring sustainable healthcare, with examples of sustainable occupational therapy practice.
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
This is a recording of the AHP Sustainability webinar from June 18th 2020, part of the National Allied Health Professions fornightly webinar series.
Green walking is about moving through a natural space. This simple act brings multiple benefits to physical, social and mental health.
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
