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Nitrous Oxide and Entonox Manifold Waste Reduction: Free Lunch and Learn online seminar

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16 Dec 2020
by
Amarantha Fennell-Wells
Do you prescribe nitrous oxide? It's a vital medicine for many specialties within health care. Registration is via the Eventbrite page…
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Your Thoughts About A Greener Future

Created on
30 Nov 2020
by
Vivien De Greef
The cover story for this month's OTnews is about A Greener Future. The article explores sustainable healthcare as a concept, and shares examples of sustainable occupational therapy practice from…
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Life-cycle analysis of HD in Newcastle Hospitals

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9 Oct 2020
by
Suren Kanagasundaram
What is the true, lifecycle environmental impact of HD @NewcastleHosps. Can we develop metrics of good practice, recognised by clinicians and industry, alike? What are the key intervention points to…
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Invitation for Doctors working in Europe to complete Survey

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7 Aug 2020
by
Vivien De Greef
Students from the University of Amsterdam would like to hear from you regarding COVID-19 induced e-health implementation and its contribution to sustainable healthcare. Background:The COVID-19…
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Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2023

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3 Aug 2020
by
Vivien De Greef
The Environmental Physiotherapy Agenda 2023 (EPT Agenda 2023) is a global call to action built around a single aim relevant to physical therapy or physiotherapy education (1). This aim of the agenda…
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Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

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29 Jul 2020
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Vivien De Greef
Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada. After a four-hour self-study module, we met in a four-hour workshop to discuss…
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'Upcycling' dialysis filters?

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7 Jul 2020
by
Frances Mortimer
I hadn't realised that discardedkidney dialysis filters are being repurposed to make pure water in some places in Africa, Asia and Latin America - described in this article, titled 'Ingenious…
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Kidney patient leaflet re-published

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8 Jan 2020
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Frances Mortimer
Great to see that the NKF has re-issued their patient information leaflet on Green Nephrology, which we worked on with them a few years back. Seems to be new appetite for sustainable kidney…
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We're scaling up to carbon-neutral healthcare

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28 Nov 2019
by
Admin *
The recent huge interest in climate change has created an unprecedented demand for our charity to help people to take action. We are excited to have more and more nurses and doctors contacting us…
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Reflections on training with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

Created on
11 Nov 2019
by
Catherine Stannard
Hello! Me and a couple of colleagues from the Kidney Quality Improvement Partnership (KQuIP) went to the CSH sustainable QI training day last month.Below is a link to a blog I wrote reflecting on the…