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Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Green Team Competition.
Team members
Rachel Tighe (Therapy Radiographer – rachel.tighe2@nhs.net)
Hayley…
Created on
8 Mar 2024 •
by
Rachel Tighe (Therapy Radiographer), Hayley Hall (Therapy Radiographer), Deborah Chapman (Therapy Radiographer), Peter Goldie (Radiotherapy Physicist)
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…
Podiatrists have a shared responsibility to work and live as ‘green’ as possible, and to share this message
with patients. Reducing waste, physically and in the form of unnecessary treatment, and…
Podiatrists, as allied health professionals, have wide community engagement, and hence, can model positive
environmental practices, which may be effective in changing wider community behaviours, as…
People are increasingly concerned about climate change, and COP26 is an important and imminent
meeting for human and planet health.
This commentary on Green Podiatry directs us all to lighten our…
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…
Great Hand book produced by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine covering how to start, how to set up, and support training and development. Some concepts would be applicable and useful to…
There is a climate emergency and need to achieve 45% reduction in Carbon emission by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°c. The UK
NHS has a national environmental sustainability target to…
Ambitious research project by third Year undergraduate students at the University of Southampton and in partnership with the
Royal College of Podiatry; exploring the current beliefs of sustainability…