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Our article published today!"The contribution of anaesthesia to the environmental impact of healthcare is significant and visible, but amenable to change. We believe that this places anaesthetists in…
Published date
March 2019
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Shelton, C.L., McBain, S.C., Mortimer, F. and White, S.M.
One way of reducing waste in theatre is to think about the surgical instruments we use (or open and don’t use!).
This study does not focus on environmental sustainability, but does look at reducing…
Practice Greenhealth is an American organisation working to promote sustainable, eco-friendly practices in healthcare https://practicegreenhealth.org/initiatives/greening-operating-room. This tool can…
Thedegroeneic.nl website is in Dutch forThe Green ICU partnership in the Netherlands, but Chrome has a translation extension to read the content in English.
This Sustainable Hospital website is a Dutch initiative connecting researchers with expertise in engineering, design and policy (TU Delft); medical sciences (Erasmus MC); operations & technology…
An example of how surgeons can help reduce carbon emissions outside of theatres too!
This study looked at the clinical, financial and environmental benefits of a telemedicine urology clinic by…
Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023.
The project report highlights changes and initiatives implemented to reduce food cost, CO2 emissions and food…
Traditional period products are mostly plastic and in our life-time we will use thousands, producing waste which ends up in landfill. By introducing period pants to young people in hospital we support…
A really interesting article looking at the individual contribution of different methods of ‘greening’ strategies in operating theatres.
It highlights how changesin anaesthetic gas usage can have…
