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📘 What’s inside this guide?This practical guide outlines how dialysis centres can reduce their environmental impact through actionable and scalable good practices. It includes:🔍 Context &…
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September 2023
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Green Nephrology group of the Francophone Society of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation (SFNDT)
Very pleased that this paper is out. Unnecessary diagnostic specimens can contribute to the large carbon footprint of our services. They add little or no clinical value to patient care and can even…
Why you should read this article:To enhance your understanding of your role in mitigating the environmental costs of providing careTo reflect on how you could lead quality improvement projects aimed…
At the University of Manchester, the Community Based Medical Education Team (CBME) has devised a new toolkit to encourage and support students and supervisorscarrying out 'green' quality improvement…
The aim of this study was to explore awareness of green social prescribing amongst pharmacists working in Wales, UK and to identify green prescribing initiatives with which they are involved.
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August 2023
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Phoebe Nicklina, Lloyd Hambridgeb, Jonathan Lloyd Jonesc, Les Bailliea, Louise Hughesa
NHS Commercial guidance on applying social value in the procurement of NHS goods and services.NHS England’s stated policy objective is to meet its net zero carbon targets while achieving its wider…
A team from Spain have published a method to establish the material composition of commonly used endoscopic accessories and then used life cycle assessment methodology to quantify the carbon footprint…
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April 2023
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López-Muñoz P, Martín-Cabezuelo R, Lorenzo-Zúñiga V, et al
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, with funding from Health Education England, developed this free-to-access Guide for improving the sustainability of a dental practice.
The Guideis intended…
The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine's Green Paper provides information and recommendations for improving environmental sustainability within intensive care clinical practice, research and…
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October 2024
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De Waele, J.J., Hunfeld, N., Baid, H., Ferrer, R., Iliopoulou, K., Ioan, A.M., Leone, M., Ostermann, M., Scaramuzzo, G., Theodorakopoulou, M. and Touw, H
The Royal College of Physicians has launched the Green Physician Toolkit to support doctors with a range of actions they can take in their day-to-day practice to mitigate and adapt to the effects of…
