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Aims: Clinical laboratories play a vital role in healthcare, yet their operations contribute to resource consumption, waste generation, and greenhouse gas emissions. The need for sustainable practices…
NHS England has recently launched a new programme ofNational Medicines Optimisation Opportunities for 2023/24. The guidance outlines 16 key areas of focus, including:
addressing problematic…
SusQI project completed as part of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTM UHB) and Centre for Sustainable HealthcareIntensive Sustainable Innovation Group Scholar…
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…
Critical Care Susnet Networking presentation
Speaker - Dr Nicole Hunfeld, PhD, PharmD Critical Care
Topic - Material flow analysis and carbon hotspots in intensive care
Video recording…
Project completed as part of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTM UHB) and Centre for Sustainable HealthcareIntensive Sustainable Innovation Group Scholar Programme.
Scholar: Dr…
This is a project report which describes the steps taken by the Cardiff Royal Infirmary sexual health department to reintroduce reusable metal specula into their outpatient clinics.
Interim outcome…
The key to environmental footprint improvement in healthcare and critical care uses the framework: avoiding, reducing, reusing, and recycling without compromising safe, quality care, with simultaneous…
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19 Jun 2023 •
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Heather Baid, principal lecturer, Eleanor Damm, specialty trainee, Louise Trent, intensive care physician, Forbes McGain, associate dean sustainable healthcare
A guide for healthcare professionals. Consists of a flowchart that helps to review a patient with the aim of adjusting their inhaler usage and reduce carbon footprint.