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Project completed as part of the 2021 Green Team Competition.
Setting/Patient Group: Operating theatres
Issue to be addressed:
Approximately 23% of carbon emissions from surgery are due…
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…
This is not a new resource (published in 2017) but provides some really thought provoking reading on overdiagnosis, overtreatment and waste, including pharmaceutical waste.
TheHCWH Global Road Map for Health Care Decarbonization,outlinedmany high impact and key actions for the health sector to reach Net Zero emissions. High level recommendations included declaring a…
"The Global Action Plan Knowledge Hub for Health Professionals provides downloadble resources and training videos for healthcare professionals on air pollution."
"PharmAid is a charitable initiative that supplies recent medicines information such as BNFs to pharmacists that need them around the Commonwealth, ensuring they have access to the latest information…
"Created by the NHS, for the NHS, Care Without Carbon is a deceptively simple framework for delivering sustainable healthcare – cutting carbon, saving money and supporting workforce wellbeing. The…
This 2016 report from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediactics and Child Health examines the impact of exposure to air pollution across the course of a lifetime. The…
A project I did back in 2019/2020 looking at staff attitudes to sustainability at University Hospital Southampton.
Over 1,100 responses.
Mix of scale answer questions with some free text options…