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Project completed as part of the 2021 Green Surgery Challenge
Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wide
Issue to be addressed:
To eliminate the second group and save (G&S) blood test in the…
Traditional period products are mostly plastic and in our life-time we will use thousands, producing waste which ends up in landfill. By introducing period pants to young people in hospital we support…
To introduce a timely process in the provision of elbow crutches to community patients. Reducing waste and protecting and managing resources efficiently (greener AHP).
A case study from Southern Health NHS Foundation trustwhere a quality improvement project led to the introduction of an electric vehicle within an urgent community response service, resulting in…
Patients receiving enteral feeding in the community require plastics/ancillaries to allow feed to be pumped/bolused via the feeding tube. Multi-use syringes are deemed adequate for use in the…
This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, providesgreenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the…
Marc Beaumont, sustainability lead from Hull University teaching hospital explains how his multi-disciplinary team achieved an 87% reduction in their Entonox emissions with an additional cost saving…
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16 Aug 2023 •
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Marc Beaumont, Head of Sustainability, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH)
A research conducted to understand the different common viewspoints among British people about climate change. Check out the 7 segments and their descriptions - very useful as a tool to assess 'who'…