Resource library

This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, providesgreenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the…

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.…

This article addresses the growing concern of the impact of climate change is having on healthcare services. There has been a call for all allied health professionals to prepare and mitigate these…

"This report from the RCP and the RCPCHexamines the impact of exposure to air pollution across the course of a lifetime."

An article on the evidence base (or lack thereof) for the use of single use medical instruments.

A report on overdiagnosis, which can contribute to patient harms and an increased carbon footprint of healthcare.

An article on green prescribing in the UK.

This paper describes the co-benefits of a green approach to prescribing.

A study of people with multiple long-term conditions who were taking treatments that were no longer right for them resulted in recommendations to help clinicians safely reduce or stop patients’…

"No time for the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day? But have you got time for illness? Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for cancer and a bigger risk factor for coronary heart…