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Key learning point: Reducing the burden of waste and improving its segregation into appropriate streams for disposal has positive environmental impacts as well as cost savings.
Setting/Patient…
The project was shortlisted for the Green Nephrology Awards 2012. The PDF award entry poster may be downloaded fromhere.
Key learning point: Electricity energy saving in patients homes – with…
Created on
10 Apr 2024 •
by
Kevin Gibbs, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Key learning point: Digitalisation of pathology reporting results in significant social as well as environmental and financial savings.
Setting/Patient Group:Dialysis unit patient…
Created on
10 Apr 2024 •
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Ian Stott, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
In our last edition, we explored the meaning behind 20 buzzwords, which are at the forefront of decarbonization efforts in healthcare. 🌍💚 In this addition, let’s dive into the exciting world of the…
You can find 3 newly created factsheets for patients wanting to eat a plant based diet with CKD stage 1-5 (not having dialysis), dialysis and transplant in the resources section of the Plant-based…
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20 Jul 2023 •
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Angeline Taylor, Plant-Based Health Professionals and the Renal Nutrition Group (RNG)
This is a free online carbon footprint calculator for use in in-centre haemodialysis units. It measures your overall footprint and carbon intensity per patient session, and identifies the greenhouse…
Open access article looking at the patient, hospital and environmental cost of unnecessary bloodwork in general surgery inpatients at Vancouver General Hospital.
The article estimates the carbon…
*UPDATED FOR 2023*
The calculator has now been updated with the latest GHG emission factors for 2023. If you are estimating travel emissions from a project for the year 2022 you can still access the…
The UK- basedSustainability in Pharmacy Education Group has developed a document which mapsenvironmental sustainability to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) learning outcomes for the initial…
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28 Jun 2023 •
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Sustainability in Pharmacy Education Group, Pharmacy Schools Council
Case study estimating the carbon footprint of unnecessary cannulation in England.
This case study draws on carbon footprinting data undertake as part of a larger CSH project in 2021. The carbon…