Resource library

This second year SSC allowed students to form groups and work on a project to communicate health and sustainability issues to a specific population of their choice. These examples are from groups…

Educational outputs of the Green Nephrology Fellowship 2009-10; including medical leadership skills developed, academic qualifications, conference presentations, research carried out and publications…

Key learning point: The implementation of a virtual Kidney Patient Results Review Monitoring Service for patients demonstrated significant benefits, including a reduction in patient visits to renal…

The Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) network was begun in June 2009 by a group of clinicians, academics and students interested in supporting the goals of NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy (2009) by…

Poster presented at the British Renal Society/ Renal Association 2001. Sustainability is an effective motivator for staff and patients to engage in service improvement, and has been described as the…

The 10:10 Checklists show 10 actions to reduce the carbon footprint of your Trust, ward or individual practice. They are available to download as pdf posters, or online via the links…

Setting/Patient Group: Operating Theatres Issue to be addressed: To reduce the environmental impact of two operating theatres, focusing on waste disposal and electricity usage.…

A carbon footprinting tool specifically designed for GPs to measure the carbon footprint of their practice - developed by the Royal College of General Practitioners working with environmental…

This project was the winner of the 2011 Green Nephrology Award Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust James Dixon, Trust Waste Officer (and Chair of Sustainability Working…

Results from the 2010 local Green Nephrology representatives survey: In full (although comments have been summarised) and as a single page summary for circulation and display. Also a ppt. file to use…