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This article recognises that climate change and an aging population are two of the greatest challenges facing current and future healthcare services and practices. It investigates the wide range…
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) have produced this toolkit:
A beginners guide to sustainability in the ICU
There is guidance on these themes for intensive care…
Fascinating article about the importance of training health care learners about sustainability and its importance in order to reach carbon-neutral goals in the future
Published date
June 2021
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Owen Dan, Luo Jacob, Joel Kirsh, Carson Victoria, Sanderson Kelan, Wu Rosemarie Vincent
Sustainable Healthcare Education—a network of academics, doctors, and health-care students—has developed three simple learning objectives to communicate the links between medical practice and a more…
Published date
November 2014
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Thompson, T., Walpole, S., Braithwaite, I., Inman, A., Barna, S., and Mortimer, F.
Project completed as part of the 2021 Green Surgery Challenge.
Setting/Patient Group: Operating theatre
Issue to be addressed:
Appendicectomy remains the most performed acute general…
Paper pinpoints gaps in literature and knowledge around sustainablity in endoscopy. Also, provides means to indenitify these gaps and counter the issues raised there.
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…
Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), is it an essential medicine?
An overview of the medical application areas of SF6. Is it really needed when there are low or zero global warming potential alternatives.
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…