Hi, in what I hope will be the first in an occasional series of interviews(!), I recently had the opportunity to ask Chantelle Rizan about her research work in sustainability in surgery. Chantelle is…
Clare Morgan is CSH's first W.I.S.E. (Wales, Ireland, Scotland England) Sustainable Ophthalmology Scholar in Scotland supported by a grant from Bausch and Lomb during 2019. Bausch and Lomb’s funding…
We are delightedthat our CSH Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan has been awarded a Surgical Research Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng). This supports her PhD…
I thought members of the network may be interested in hearing about our work at Raigmore Hospital, where we managed to reduce our carbon emissions from volatile agents by 4.5% (from 5%) to…
We are just starting to try and introduce and rationalise waste recycling into theatres (the trust does not recycle anything!). If anyone else has already done something similar I would be grateful to…
"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of…
As reported a year ago, CSH has been awarded another Seeing is Believing Innovation Fund* grant for the second phase of developing with its partners, a web-based ‘Eyefficiency’ audit toolkit for…
Hi Everybody,
I wanted to tell you all about our group, GASP - The Greener Anaesthesia & Sustainabilty Project. We are an organisation focused on reducing the environmental impact of healthcare…
At the end of August 2018, we successfully established this environmental initiative at North Bristol NHS Trust, which continues to run multiple projects within theatres to reduce our carbon…
Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected. Many of us therefore feel that we should use our position to speak out and make sure that people know about the climate emergency and the…