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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.…
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…
This report from Healthcare Without Harm highlights successful initiatives across Europe where pharmacists are taking the lead in promoting responsible medicine use, reducing pharmaceutical waste, and…
Environmental optimizations in kidney care have been analysed as part of the EU co-funded KitNewCare project.Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) using Ecoinvent database and OpenLCA software quantified…
Published date
August 2025
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Duane, B., Larkin, J., Caiazzo ML., Arenas, MD., Griffin, A., Audije-Gil J., Mortimer, F., Attwell, H., Yasar, A., Martínez, R., Arias-Guillén, M., Gomez, M., Fehintola, A., Steinbach, I., Ortiz, A
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…
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…
The health care sector is a resource-intensive industry, consuming significant amounts of water and energy, and producing a multitude of waste. Health care providers are increasingly implementing…
Opinion piece on sustainable diets, gaps in online clinical dietary resources and in particular the messaging on iron availability from plant focused diets.
Planet centred care is new podcast series for the BMJ exploring issues related to environmentally sustainable healthcare, aimed at all clinicians, and anyone working in healthcare, who want to make…
