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How the environmental decline can affect mental health As our planet faces unprecedented environmental challenges, it is becoming increasingly evident that the…

A nursing times article about a staff well-being project that involved nursing staff receiving plants to care for in non-clinical spaces. The article describes how nurses and their colleagues at…

This insightful and timely UKKA webinar, hosted by Shazia Adalat and Suren Kanagasundaram, looks into the latest plans and developments across the kidney care community to help drive and promote…

These slides were created for the UKKW 6 June 2023 Climate Clinic in Newport, Wales. They include brief details of the UKKA Sustainability Committee's workstreams, the '12 Steps to Green a Kidney…

5 x 20 minutes presentations as follows: Elaine Mead (prIHSCM) - Improvement care and compassion Hannah Montgomery - Grace Cares CIC Dr Alice Clack - Sustainability in QI - What? Why?…

Critical Care Susnet Networking presentation Speaker - Dr Nicole Hunfeld, PhD, PharmD Critical Care Topic - Material flow analysis and carbon hotspots in intensive care Video recording…

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…

The UKKA Sustainability Committee needs a named staff Sustainability Champion in each UK kidney unit so that best practice ideas for more sustainable kidney care can be disseminated more…

This is a free online carbon footprint calculator for use in in-centre haemodialysis units. It measures your overall footprint and carbon intensity per patient session, and identifies the greenhouse…

This article announces the creation of the global “GREEN-K” initiative: Global Environmental Evolution in Nephrology and Kidney Care, with a vision of “sustainable kidney care for a healthy planet and…