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Project completed as part of the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust Green Team Competition
Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wide
Issue to be addressed:
5% of the carbon footprint of acute…
Published date
April 2019
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Swarbrick C, Valentine P, Martin F, Ford P and Martin A.
SusQI project improving access to electronic notes in the community delivered as part of The 2019 Barts Health NHS Trust Green Ward Competition.
Project Aims: To improve access to electronic notes…
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…
These pages have useful information including presenting the BSG's Strategy on Climate Change and Sustainability as well as activity plans and resources.
Green Impact is a sustainability accreditation scheme with an audit and awards element designed specifically for dental practices. It’s an international programme, recognised by UNESCO as a global…
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.
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.
"Sustainable healthcare education: integrating planetary
health into clinical education" (Walpole, Barna, Richardson, Rother) situates the work of the Sustainable Healthcare Education network within…
Published date
January 2019
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Walpole,S. C., Barna, S., Richardson, J., Rother, H.
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…