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Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust undertook a Green Team Competition in 2017-2018. The following projects focussed on reduction of wasted blood tests and…

After much discussion among the core group of SHE, we have developed the attached vision, mission and goals for our organisation. We hope that this will help to clarify our focus and drive our…

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…

Dear Colleagues, Pleased to share with you the first environmental "parallel assessment" (Toolan et al., 2022) alongside a health economic analysis that I undertook last year for the Scottish…

Key learning point: Switching to the 44 to 1 concentration cans is a relatively easy process at negligible cost and may be a simpler method of reducing concentrate solution storage without…

Environmental change poses pressing challenges to public health and calls for profound and far-reaching changes to policy and practice across communities and health systems. Medical schools can act…

I hope this might be interesting to some members, this article reports on work we have been doing to look at overuse in health care as a form of overconsumption, and examines health care overuse from…

Setting/Patient Group: Dialysis, Emergency Department and Theatres Issue to be addressed: Healthcare is a major contributor to demand for virgin single-use plastic. A successful model for PVC…

This occasional paper is making the case for using patient-level information and costing systems (PLICS) and service line reporting (SLR) for carbon accounting purposes.

Traditional period products are mostly plastic and in our life-time we will use thousands, producing waste which ends up in landfill. By introducing period pants to young people in hospital we support…