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Awareness about the waste that occurs throughout clinical care is increasing. The wasteful use of clinical resources suggests a need to improve sustainability in health care, given the current context…
Abstract
The health effects of climate change are becoming increasingly important; there are direct effects from heatwaves and floods, and indirect effects from the altered distribution of…
This report argues that health organisations in the UK and elsewhere should end investment in the 200 largest publicly-listed fossil fuel companies. Continued investment in these companies runs…
This is a free online non-clinical carbon footprint calculator for General Practices in the UK to use. The calculator measures and identifies the non-clinical greenhouse gas emission hotspots from…
Reviewed and endorsed by the NHS England and NHS Improvement Inhaler Working Group and Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation
This guide can support healthcare professionals to safely and…
Morgan, T. and Ryan, B. (2021), How does the optometry profession move up a gear to tackle the problem of climate change?. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt.https://doi.org/10.1111/opo.12920
In August 2021…
Project completed as part of the Green Surgery Challenge 2021.
Setting/Patient Group: 2 hospital sites
Issue to be addressed:
To reduce the carbon footprint of carpal tunnel release…
Published date
July 2021
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by
Kodumuri P, Jesudason P, Houghton J, Roberts S, Williamson I and Revell T
