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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s project to support NHS organisations to retro-fit heat exchangers to…
Following Monday the 19th of September, as the world meets to discuss NCD’s at the UN summit in New York; many eyes will be tuned in to change. Underlying the main event is a new precipitation of…
http://www.asme.org.uk/conferences/globalisation-of-health-autumn-2011.htmlThis meeting will include a morning workshop on Sustainable Healthcare Education with case studies and evaluation.
The 2010 survey of Green Nephrology Local Representatives has revealed a range of local action under way, with cross-pollination of ideas from one renal centre to another. The survey identified a need…
A carbonfootprintingstudypublished inHemodialysisInternationalthis month comparingin-centreand homehaemodialysishighlights that the frequency of treatments has a big impact on carbon emissions.…
From November 2010, I will take over from Andy Connor as the next Green Nephrology Fellow, I am both excited by the tremendous developments that have occurred in little over a year and slightly…
Children from Hippo and Victoria wards at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust (GOSH) haemodialysis and renal wards worked with artist Darcy Turner on Thursday 7 October during a day of activity on…
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Green Nephrology Summit 2010
Birmingham Children's Hospital, 24 September 2010
Introduction
The Green Nephrology programme was founded in 2009 to improve…
When I was at school, I remember having a vague sense I wanted to do something to do with either health or the environment. Medicine was a more established path than anything environmental, and seemed…
The conversation in green nephrology has changed. Though water reclamation, recycling and energy saving are still important, a fly on the wall at last week’s Green Nephrology Summit would have heard…