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Project completed as part of the Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Green Team Competition 2024-25.Team members:Jasmine Lowdon (Band 6 IPC nurse, Project Co-ordinator/Project lead)Holly Slyne…
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Jasmine Lowdon (Band 6 IPC nurse), Holly Slyne (Associate Director of Infection Prevention & Control), Mary Reynolds (Project Admin Support) and Athira Sreelatha (HCA)
A useful mobile app which scans consumer dermatologic product ingredients and determines if the ingredients may be harmful to the user or the environment. I am ever increasingly concerned about the…
The RPS Greener Pharmacy Guides and Toolkit have been developed to help pharmacy staff reduce their carbon footprint, so that the pharmacy profession can play their part in addressing the current…
Benzodiazepines and z-drugs are commonly prescribed medications in a variety of psychiatric settings.The majority of inpatient benzodiazepine prescriptions are for >4 weeks (95.6%) and off-label…
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April 2025
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Lobo, M., Alriyahi, B., Salimkumar, R., Salwey, C. and Eltayeb, H.
An eye opening meta analysis and review of microplastic leaching from plastic food containers and otherwise. Enters our food, we ingest these plastics and they subsequently enter our water systems and…
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Xiangyu Liu, Detian Li, Ziang Li, Andrew S. Ball, Chengrong Chen
A landmark paper introducing conceptual approaches to marrrying carbon emissions of dermatological treatments with patient clinical outcomes and health economic data. Highlights a means to rank…
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Mythili Ramamurthy Srinivasan, Fatima Ali, Sarika Grover, Yasmin Nikookam, Rosie Vincent, Rachel A Abbott, Alex Gan, Williams Hunt, Vinton Cheng, Misha Rosenbach, Eva Parker, Eugene Tan, David de Berker, Dennis Niebel, Simon Tso
This paper explores the challenges faced by general practice in implementing sustainable prescribing. It outlines the actions governments and other relevant bodies across the UK can take to…
Presented by Katy Whitehouse at February's Susnet event focused on Entonox, a real world case study of Catalytic Entonox cracking.Katy Whitehouse is a consultant obstetric anaesthetist at the Royal…
This recording from February's Women's Health Susnet Event on Entonox, discusses the monitoring of the carbon mitigation impacts of introducing an “Entonox Cracking” device into the maternity…
This study presents the carbon footprint of the In-Centre Haemodialysis (ICHD) patient pathway in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, mapping emissions across key stages of treatment. It highlights the…
