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Healthcare without harm: physician resource network is an established website with manyresources ranging from advocacy to grand rounds and webinars. This website also featuresmedical student specific…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: Marianne Dawson, Canada, British Columbia
Issue: To scale sustainable change and not add to the…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: Laura L. Bellaire, USA
Issue: Healthcare delivery generates significant waste and emissions.…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: Wales, UK
Issue: The healthcare sector contributes heavily to climate change, producing 4.4% of…
In December 2021 JDS Evans Pharmacy was successfully selected to enrol in “Greener Primary Care '' pilot scheme. This is a framework and award scheme in Wales that encourages all sectors of primary…
Key learning point: Reducing the burden of waste and improving its segregation into appropriate streams for disposal has positive environmental impacts as well as cost savings.
Setting/Patient…
The project was shortlisted for the Green Nephrology Awards 2012. The PDF award entry poster may be downloaded fromhere.
Key learning point: Electricity energy saving in patients homes – with…
Published date
July 2012
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by
Kevin Gibbs, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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…
This is the first published paper defining the links between Climate Change and the Speech and Language Therapy Profession. It was published in the International Journal of Language and Communication…
ABSTRACT
High-technology medicine saves lives and produces waste; this is the case of dialysis. The increasing amounts of waste products can be biologically dangerous in different ways: some…