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One Small Success - Transport Issues

Created on
18 Nov 2014
by
William Beale
Green Nephrology Blog One Small Success Last weekend the Bristol Health Partners hosted an event to encourage innovation. We only discovered this by accident and prepared a quick presentation…
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The RCPsych Sustainability Summit

Created on
3 Oct 2014
by
Admin *
On the 1st October we had the first sustainability summit run by a medical royal college in the UK. However, people continue to think that sustainability remains the remit of politicians and…
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BJRM article: Cutting the carbon cost of dialysis: efficient delivery of acid concentrate

Created on
25 Sep 2014
by
Frances Mortimer
The British Journal of Renal Medicine has published an article on the opportunities for reducing waste in the delivery of acid for haemodialysis, authored by members of the Green Nephrology…
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Upgrade of our Australian Green Dialysis website

Created on
16 Sep 2014
by
John Agar
Dear 'Green' UK ... This is to let your members know that we launched an update/upgrade of our Australian Green Dialysis website during 'Renal Week', a 5 day meeting that encompassed the 50th…
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Committee on Climate Change report and SDU call for NHS feedback on overheating in wards

Created on
15 Sep 2014
by
Jacqueline Cutting
The Committee on Climate Change has produced a recent report entitled 'Managing climate risks to well-being and the economy' The report investigates the threats and opportunities for the country…
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Divestment for Health

Created on
24 Jun 2014
by
Isobel Braithwaite
I'm writing this post to alert CSH members tothis motion(#370) which is on the agenda of the British Medical Association's Annual Representatives' Meeting tomorrow morning, on climate advocacy and…
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Winners of last year's SBRI Funding Competition announced

Created on
29 May 2014
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
The winners of last year's new Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition to find innovative technology based solutions in Kidney Care have been announced on 13th May 2014. The £3.6 m…
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Request to sign an open letter on climate, energy and health to David Cameron

Created on
20 Nov 2013
by
Isobel Braithwaite
Hi, My name's Isobel Braithwaite and I'm a medical student at UCL; I've been involved with the CSH in the past as an intern and met some of you at CleanMed Europe. I'm involved in the student…
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Call for help with Patient Transport in Kidney Care

Created on
14 Nov 2013
by
Rachel Stancliffe
Hello All! CSH is thinking about starting a project to 1) look at patient transport in kidney care from both carbon and patient experience points of view and 2) run a pilot project in one hospital.…
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Right patient, right time, right place - an example from kidney care

Created on
13 Nov 2013
by
Hugh Rayner
Dialysis treatment for end stage kidney disease is a burden on patients, taxpayers, and the environment. The carbon cost of dialysis is estimated to be seven tonnes CO2 equivalents per year. Although…