Resource library

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…

This is a practical tool for those involved in commissioning or building a new dialysis unit, or retrofitting an existing unit, to help with including sustainable features in the design. Developed…

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, with funding from Health Education England, developed this free-to-access Guide for improving the sustainability of a dental practice. The Guideis intended…

Key learning point Avoiding unnecessary secondary care referrals is an effective way of releasing resources in specialist units, saving on patient transport and other environmental costs. Paper…

Realising the health benefits of acting on air pollution This report on air pollution describes the current problem, the reasons it exists and the critical need to resolve it, and includes high…

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust revolutionised patient care while championing environmental responsibility by adopting Open Medical's PathpointⓇ Virtual Fracture Clinic. Their digitally…

The study analyses the impact of service provision at different locations on health outcomes, cost of service, carbon emissions and patients and their families.

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.

Duane, B., Berners Lee, M., White, S., Stancliffe, R. & Steinbach, I. BDJ (2017) 223: 589–593 ABSTRACT: Introduction: National Health Service (NHS) England dental teams need to consider from a…

A case study from Southern Health NHS Foundation trustwhere a quality improvement project led to the introduction of an electric vehicle within an urgent community response service, resulting in…