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Interventions that consider climate change, sustainability, and nature should be integral to health system functioning. Placing sustainability at the core of the NHS’s future offers opportunities to…
For a greener ICU, we call for healthcare researchers to measure the environmental benefits of interventions to limit low-value care, and for healthcare practitioners to increase implementation of…
Abstract
BackgroundHuman health is inextricably linked to planetary health. The desire to nurture and protect both concurrently requires the mitigation of healthcare-associated environmental harms…
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19 Feb 2024 •
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Walpole S, Popat A, Blakey EP, Holden E, Whittaker B, Saggu R, Fennell-Wells A, Armit K & Hothi D
This report presents an overview of how doctors' efforts between 2008 and 2020 have resulted in the institutionalisation of sustainable healthcare as a key priority for the NHS in England.
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Alongside Liz Sturgiss and Peter Tait I am guest editor for this special edition on the topic of Climate Crisis in a Family Medicine journal:
https://academic.oup.com/fampra/issue/40/3
Thank you…
Hemodialysis wastewater contains high concentrations of ammonia nitrogen and phosphorus. Recovery of these nutrients as soil fertilizers represents an interesting opportunity to ensure a sustainable…
This research article is a reflective narrative documenting how ‘climate change impacts, exposures, and vulnerability indicators’ (CCIEVIs) have been developed, as a set of measurable indicators. The…
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29 Jun 2023 •
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Claudia Di Napoli, Alice McGushin, Marina Romanello, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Wenjia Cai, Jonathan Chambers, Shouro Dasgupta, Luis E. Escobar, Ilan Kelman, Tord Kjellstrom, Dominic Kniveton, Yang Liu, Zhao Liu, Rachel Lowe, Jaime Martinez-Urtaza, Celia McMich
Scarcity of water and energy, and legal requirements for discharge of waste and wastewater are forcing hemodialysis facilities to change their approach to a more integrated concept of connecting the…
Paper published in the Future Healthcare Journalputs forwarda simple approach for incorporating sustainability into mainstream QI methodologies:the ‘SusQI’ framework.
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6 Jun 2018 •
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Frances Mortimer, Jennifer Isherwood, Alexander Wilkinson and Emma Vaux