The 2012 Award, presented at the Green Nephrology Summit yesterday, has gone to Newcastle Renal Unit for their "baling and recycling" project, modelled on one of the early case studies in Green…
CSH is delighted to announce that this year's NHS Forest Autumn Event is to be held on the 18th October at Todmorden Health Centre, Lower George Street, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, OL14 5RN.
The day…
The winner of the 2012 Green Nephrology Awards (to be announced at next week's Summit) will receive a £500 prize to invest in green initiatives. The prize, donated by a supporter and topped up with…
in partnership with NHS Kidney Care
Has your kidney unit successfully introduced a green change in the last 3 years? The Green Nephrology Awards celebrate the successes of local kidney services in…
The previous Green Nephrology fellowships have shown that leading a move to sustainable healthcare is a great educational opportunity for an individual, as well as being an exciting project to be…
David Pencheon has been quoted recently as seeing opportunity in the disruption caused by the passing of the Health and Social Care Act.
With new commissioning groups forming, priorities and visions…
Not sure whether people have seen this article in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/03/prescription-medicine-unused?INTCMP=SRCH
Regards,
Mark
There has been discussion in the Green Nephrology Forum about recycling of bicarbonate containers on the dialysis unit.
Clearly a fair number (I am not sure exactly how many) of units are now…
The Centre's Sustainable Respiratory Care group will lead research on why the UK continues to use inhalers with a much higher carbon footprint than other European countries. 25,000 people a year die…
The Green Nephrology Programme successfully bid for funding for the Heat Exchangers project from 10:10 in 2011. The objective is to save energy and carbon in kidney care by encouraging retrofitting of…