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Project completed as part of theUniversity Hospital Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Green Team Competition. Setting/Patient Group: Post operative care - Recovery Rooms Issue to be…

This case study was joint winner of the 2013 Green Nephrology Awards.The project was implemented by a multi professional team, comprising Gary Carlisle (ward manager), David Croft (chief renal…

Tick off 10 actions to cut CO2 by 10% in your occupational therapy department 1. Drive less Highlight alternative travel arrangements with your team, group together home visits, explore…

Key learning point: Digitalisation of pathology reporting results in significant social as well as environmental and financial savings. Setting/Patient Group:Dialysis unit Issue to be…

Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wide Issue to be addressed: Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust estimate procurement of more than one million syringes in 2013 representing…

Ellen Swann is a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist (Deafness) and manager of the Specialist Speech and Language Therapy Network for Deaf People (Cheshire and Merseyside). She has worked as a…

A toolkit to helpgeneral practices improve their sustainability and environmental impact,and reduce their practice expenses. The toolkit is supported by the Royal College of General Practitioners…

Abstract 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…

Key learning point “Finding money for green initiatives is always difficult, It would be wonderful if the Unit would re-invest some of its cost savings into more carbon reductions, for example to…

Slides presented by Dr Ian Stott at the Renal Association Clinical Directors' Forum, March 2013