The Association of British Dispensing Opticians has developed a tool for optical practices to help them assess their progress on the journey towards sustainability.
Practices can use this to…
UK Attitudes towards waste in Cataract Surgery
Cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the UK, and…
In view of the significant contribution anaesthetics make to the NHS carbon footprint, CSH have developed a new course focused on Sustainable Anaesthetics. I wonder if you would be interested in…
BACCN-IACCN Conference
17th-18th Oct 2022 Belfast Ireland
BACCN - British Association of Critical Care Nurses
IACCN - Irish Association of Critical Care Nurses
**Submissions encouraged…
The Intensive Care Society, UK is currenlty recruiting to their 'Environmental Sustainability Workgroup'.
We will work at driving emissons to Net Zero as an organisation and tackling the concept…
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgery in the world and the UK. Therefore, there are a number of papers looking at carbon footprint of cataract surgery and ways to reduce it.
In…
The Canadian Federation of Medical Students Health and Environment Adaptive Reponse Task Force recently released this report:
CFMS HEART: National Report on Planetary Health Education…
Here’s a very short but useful article about oxygen waste from turning the flow all the way up to the top (past 15 l/min) which is commonly done:
Arora, N. et al. 2021. Delivery of oxygen by…
The British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) have released a position statement on environmental sustainability, recognising that the climate emergency is a health…