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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…
Sustainable sourcing, use, and disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE) can help healthcare providers reduce the environmental impacts of their work. In this article we review supporting…
What you need to know:
- Pills are likely to have a reduced environmental impact compared with an equivalent dose of liquid medication, with less packaging and less wasted medicine
- Pill swallowing…
Objective: To evaluate patient satisfaction on gynaecological examination with metal, plastic and biobased plastic vaginal specula, and to investigate whether patients are willing to compromise on…
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11 Dec 2023 •
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Amber A. A. Ten Buuren, Tessa B. Poolman, Marlies Y. Bongers, Lauren M. Bullens, Nehalennia Van Hanegem, Wenche M. Klerkx, Anne Timmermans, Nicolaas P. A. Zuithoff, Anneke Kwee
Read aboutJDS Evans Pharmacy in Newport, Wales, the only pharmacy to achieve a gold award as part of the first Greener Primary Care Wales Framework and Award Scheme.
Aims: Clinical laboratories play a vital role in healthcare, yet their operations contribute to resource consumption, waste generation, and greenhouse gas emissions. The need for sustainable practices…
Podiatrists have a shared responsibility to work and live as ‘green’ as possible, and to share this message
with patients. Reducing waste, physically and in the form of unnecessary treatment, and…
The Clinical guidelines for environmental sustainability in dentistry, which aim to give staff working in dentistry a better understanding of how to make services more environmentally sustainable,…
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10 Jan 2024 •
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Bakar, M.; Duane, B.; Fennell-Wells, A.; Klass, C.