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LINK:Greener Leader Blog Series: Exploring our circles of influence as climate leaders. By Eleanor Murray – The official blog of BMJ Leader
Minimising the impacts of climate change is a huge…
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…
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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…
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10 Apr 2024 •
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Ian Stott, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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…
Project completed as part of the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTM UHB) and Centre for Sustainable HealthcareIntensive Sustainable Innovation Group Scholar Programme.
Background:
Food…
The UKKA Sustainability Committee needs a named staff Sustainability Champion in each UK kidney unit so that best practice ideas for more sustainable kidney care can be disseminated more…
These slides were created for the UKKW 6 June 2023 Climate Clinic in Newport, Wales. They include brief details of the UKKA Sustainability Committee's workstreams, the '12 Steps to Green a Kidney…
Here is a template role description for a Kidney Community Green Ambassador. It includes a draft advert and ideas on ways to involve patients’, families’, friends’ and carers’ views on changes staff…
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31 May 2023 •
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Ali Lawrence, Patient Ambassador, UKKA Sustainability Committee Action Learning and Education workstream
This is an A4 shortened version of the '12 steps to Green a Kidney Unit'https://networks.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/resources/12-steps-green-kidney-unit