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Setting/Patient Group: Operating Theatres
Issue to be addressed:
To reduce the environmental impact of two operating theatres, focusing on waste disposal and electricity usage.…
Project Completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023
Glove Use Awareness Campaign Due to the growth in use of PPE items and many studies highlighting the misuse of…
A really interesting article looking at the individual contribution of different methods of ‘greening’ strategies in operating theatres.
It highlights how changesin anaesthetic gas usage can have…
Project completed as part of the North East London 2023 Green Team Competition by the Limb reconstruction and orthopaedic research departments at the Royal London Hospital (Barts Health NHS…
Published date
May 2023
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Borra, C., Wood, R., Church, D., Hilton, C. and O'Brien, J.
Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023.
Aims:To reduce the number of unnecessary coagulation samples in both Basingstoke and Winchester Emergency…
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Emma Christmas & Sarah Noble – Consultants in Emergency Medicine,
The continued use of metered-dose inhalers in respiratory care will have a potentially catastrophic effect on global warming if production is not controlled, largely because these inhalers use potent…
Promoting appropriate IV to oral switch (IVOST)1 is a fundamental antimicrobial stewardship (AS) initiative providing benefits for patients, staff and the environment including: reduced risk of…
Published date
July 2025
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R Rodger , A Robertson , S Thompson , E Thompson , K Downie , G Ray , L Chisholm , C Pender , K Philips , M Neto , R Hillson , R A Seaton , S Carty , K MacFarlane , N MacDonald , F Kinnaird , A Reuben , S Gillen , Y Gourlay , F Robb , L Stewart , R Pucket
Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wide
Issue to be addressed:
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust estimate procurement of more than one million syringes in 2013 representing…
These recommendations to support healthcare providers working in the renal field were developed to raise awareness of the importance of evaluation of the current situation in their renal units as a…
