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Climate change represents a major global public health threat. The very provision of healthcare itself has a significant untoward effect on the environment, to which kidney care is likely…
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.
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High-technology medicine saves lives and produces waste; this is the case of dialysis. The increasing amounts of waste products can be biologically dangerous in different ways: some…
A cooling economy and a warming climate make this an opportune time to consider how ophthalmology might respond to the need to improve services while cutting costs. Although the NHS has enjoyed…
*Please note: this article is behind a paywall*
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The impact of unmitigated climate change upon global health is predicted to be disastrous. However, the very provision of healthcare…
Excellent resource on the impact of waste associated with medical education and how part of the waste can be re-used in other sessions, therefore greatly reducing the impact on the environment
Published date
October 2022
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Wesam Alyeddin a, Sarah Peters b, Adrianna Aleksandra Zembrzycka c, Laura Hudson b, SanYuMay Tun
This is a new editorial announcing a new series to come in the Intensive Care Medicinejournal and contains a useful infographic about improving environmental sustainability in…
To scale and spread promotion of the oral route in antimicrobials with high oral bioavailability with the aim of reducing collective IV use by 20% by February 2023 at RAH.
Published date
June 2023
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R Rodger, S Thompson, A Robertson, C Pender, G Ray, L Chisholm