Supply chain and procurement

The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) have produced this toolkit: A beginners guide to sustainability in the ICU There is guidance on these themes for intensive care…

This recent BNMS team award submission details some measures that have improved the environmental sustainability of the Nottingham nuclear medicine service. We hope it's useful!

This is an article from the IPEM (Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine) newsletter by Imperial College Healthcare Trust's Principal Nuclear Medicine Physicist, Laura Perry, outlining some…

SusQI project completed as part of the Leeds Green Ward Competition 10th January - 25th March by the Education Team. Team Members: Cleone Pardoe – Clinical Teaching Fellow, Post-IMT2…

Great study from Rizan et al (2021) estimating 'the carbon footprint and financial cost of decontaminating (steam sterilization) and packaging reusable surgical instruments. The study indicateshow the…

Project completed as part of the 2021 Green Team Competition. Setting/Patient Group: Operating theatres Issue to be addressed: Approximately 23% of carbon emissions from surgery are due…

The SHARE conference is an international conference that took place 7 May 2021, hosted in partnership between Bighton & Sussex Medical School and the University of Brighton School of Health…

From 1st April, all NHS providers are required to adopt the Government’s Social Value Model (Procurement Policy Note 06/20) and include a minimum of 10% weighting on net zero and social value into…

Ninety-eight procedures were performed on 97 patients. The most commonly performed procedures were drainages (30), placement and removal of venous access (21), and computed tomography-guided biopsies…

This study uses hybrid environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify average emissions associated with resource use in an acute inpatient unit with 49 beds and 14,427 hospitalization days and…