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Ambitious research project by third Year undergraduate students at the University of Southampton and in partnership with the
Royal College of Podiatry; exploring the current beliefs of sustainability…
John Agar and Katherine Barraclough have produced a fantastic review looking at the impacts of environmental change on kidney health as well asthe environmental damage caused bykidney services…
Key learning point
The case study and discussion outlined above includes most of the information required to develop a sound business case for a programme to retro-fit heat exchangers to existing…
Published date
December 2012
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by
Steve Milne, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Health Care’s Climate Footprint: How the Health Sector Contributes to the Global Climate Crisis and Opportunities for Action.
This report co-produced by Health Care Without Harm and Arup is useful…
Healthcare and particularly medicines contribute significantly to the NHS carbon footprint and to environmental pollution.
This article discusses significant pharmaceutical contributors, actions…
Improving resource use by reusing and recycling dialysis reverse osmosis (RO) system reject water. ROsystem reject water was reused to provide steam for sterilising autoclave systems, for waste…
Project completed as part of the 2019 Royal Devon & Exeter Green Ward Competition. The project was completed by the catering team, who aimed to reduce plastic waste associated with catering…
Project completed as part of the 2019 Royal Devon & Exeter Green Ward Competition. The project was compeletd by the estates team and was the competition winner.
The team aimed to reduce the number…
SusQI project improving access to electronic notes in the community delivered as part of The 2019 Barts Health NHS Trust Green Ward Competition.
Project Aims: To improve access to electronic notes…
SusQI project eliminating duplicate GP letters delivered as part of The 2019 Barts Health NHS Trust Green Ward Competition. This project was the competition winner.
Project Aims: To stop sending…