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Poster and abstract describing a study to determine patient medicine disposal habits according to:
- Medicine formulation e.g. tablets/capsules, liquids
- Medication source e.g. Hospital, GP,…
Well worth a read by anyone involved in prescribing, deprescribing and caring for patients with multiple long term conditions.
This NIHR alert is a "plain English" summary of a number of recent…
This one hour webinar from Greener PCPA covers a brief overview of communicating about climate change and influencing behavioural change and a detailed review of the Open Prescribing greener…
This Swedish life cycle assessment by Hemberg et al. (2023) compares single-use and reusable central venous catheter insertion kits, including metal, plastic and textiles items. In contrast to a 2012…
A French group have conducted a carbon footprint of a small, specialised ambulatory endoscopy unit in Strasbourg, France.
They estimate eachendoscopy procedure generates 28kg CO2e, with patient and…
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Joel Lacroute, Juliette MARCANTONI, Stephane PETITOT, Julien WEBER, Patrick LEVY, Bastien DIRRENBERGER, Irina Tchoumak, Mat- hilde BARON, Stéphanie GIBERT, Sandrine MARGUERITE, Anne DERLON, Olivier Gronier, Jerome Huppertz.
A team from Spain have published a method to establish the material composition of commonly used endoscopic accessories and then used life cycle assessment methodology to quantify the carbon footprint…
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16 May 2023 •
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López-Muñoz P, Martín-Cabezuelo R, Lorenzo-Zúñiga V, et al
SusQI project completed as part of the Hywel Dda University Health Board Green Team Competition from September 2022-January 2023.
One of the targets in the ‘NHS Wales Decarbonisation Strategic…