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"Turning the NHS into an environmentally sustainable organisation will take more than switching off the lights in unused rooms. Rather, it demands a complete overhaul of attitudes and behaviour."…
Presentation from the Cost Saving Strategies in Renal Medicine conference on 1 December 2011. Describes a number of recent cost saving green projects from the Green Nephrology Network (many thanks to…
Dissertation by Caroline Tomes, reading for MPhil in Public Health, University of Cambridge 2010-11. (Thesis supervised by Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia)
Objective: Climate change has been…
The Institute for Government held a policy reunion of the key players that were involved in policies to reduce tobacco use in England, which lead to the enactment of the ban on smoking in public…
Educational outputs of the Green Nephrology Fellowship 2009-10; including medical leadership skills developed, academic qualifications, conference presentations, research carried out and publications…
The Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) network was begun in June 2009 by a group of clinicians, academics and students interested in supporting the goals of NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy (2009) by…
Poster presented at the British Renal Society/ Renal Association 2001. Sustainability is an effective motivator for staff and patients to engage in service improvement, and has been described as the…
This project was the winner of the 2011 Green Nephrology Award
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
James Dixon, Trust Waste Officer (and Chair of Sustainability Working…
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1 Mar 2011 •
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James Dixon, Trust Waste Officer (and Chair of Sustainability Working Group), Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Although an upfront expense, upgrading older water treatment systems offers significant environmental and financial savings. Furthermore, the upgrade saves nursing time and…
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2 Nov 2009 •
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Andrew Owen, Chief Renal Technologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust