Resource library

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and the HEENortheast Faculty of Sustainable Healthcare have developed an e-LFH module on Environmental Sustainability in Quality Improvement which is now…

The SusQI Education Team have developed an open-access Educator Pack to be used by healthcare educators to embed sustainability into quality improvement teaching. The Pack can be found on…

In this review of 49 clinical guidelines from British, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Australian, European, German, and US-American medical associations, the authors found keywords related to planetary…

Consensus commentary produced by the Climate Change Working Group (CCWG) within World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO). Provides aims to tackle climate change. These include need for literature…

Useful journal article to prompt discussion. Are we practising 'resistance' in healthcare when we advocate for action on climate change?

This study uses hybrid environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify average emissions associated with resource use in an acute inpatient unit with 49 beds and 14,427 hospitalization days and…

Webinar recording from 25 November 2021 Featuring talks on IPCC and COP26: what happens now? - James Dixon, Newcastle Hospitals Greener NHS – Transitioning to a sustainable NHS - Manraj…

This article looks at how nursing has a global role, which requires an urgent response in public health challenges. Further nursing workforce development globally is needed to expand the role of…

Study comparing an acute care unit with an intensive care unit in the US: "An acute care unit generates 5.5kg of solid waste and 45kg CO2-e per hospitalization day. The ICU generates 7.1kg of solid…

This article takes a main focus on the current climate and the need for more knowledge while in training. Climate change has a detrimental impact on everyone’s health, significantly impacting the…