In his talk at the global health session of the Renal Association-BTS Congress last month, Professor John Feehally, president of the International Society of Nephrologists, reminded the audience how…
The strap line for the new Green Dialysis website is "eco-dialysis… a more thoughtful future".
http://greendialysis.org/ documents the eco-journey of the Barwon Health Renal Service, which began…
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NHS Forest 2 Trees at 2 pm
We are all set for NHS Sustainability day tomorrow the holes have been dug posts in place and our trees have been donated and loving preped by a local Nursery…
My name is Amy and I am the junior doctor ‘Sustainability Fellow’ for the Severn Deanery. It is a new post this year so I have a blank slate to work with. It is a post I have taken on in addition to…
We are celebrating Sustainability Dayby promoting 2 green initiatives.
1) The Day itself is declared as Spring Switch Off - encouraging patients, staff and visitors to switch off unwanted…
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Last week I spoke at the annual Renal Clinical Directors' Forum, which is a meeting organised by the Renal Association for clinical directors (doctors who manage their departments) to meet…
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare may soon be appointing to a new Green Nephrology Fellowship, linked to “a highly visible demonstration project showcasing radical redesign of a clinical service…
We have a 766 m2, 28 station renal unit that is not linked to any other hospital building. I have estimated some benchmark figures for our unit.
Southend renal unit annual…
NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts can bid for a share of £50 million capital funding to invest during 2013-14. The funding will support new and innovative projects to improve energy efficiency, reduce…
Green Nephrology in the BMJ! Commenting on a Green Nephrology study into savings from green initiatives in kidney units, National Clinical Director for Kidney Care, Dr Donal O'Donoghue, said "it’s not…