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Hot off the press: the Kings Fund Reports on Sustainable Healthcare

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22 Mar 2012
by
Andy Connor
The Kings Fund has published two papers on on environmentally sustainable health and social care. Both reports are based on a literature review and stakeholder consultation carried out by The King’s…
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Hot off the press: the Kings Fund Reports on Sustainable Healthcare

Created on
22 Mar 2012
by
Andy Connor
The Kings Fund has published two papers on environmentally sustainable health and social care. Both reports are based on a literature review and stakeholder consultation carried out by The King’s Fund…
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Value and Carbon in Respiratory Care

Created on
13 Mar 2012
by
Toby Hillman
Value is a concept which is making waves in the management / leadership / policy world of medicine at the moment. It is not an entirely new concept, but has been worked on and promoted as an approach…
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Should World Kidney Day be every day?

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8 Mar 2012
by
Frances Mortimer
Happy World Kidney Day! A day for raising the importance of healthy kidneys everywhere. A moment to stop and thank our own kidneys - and make sure we are doing our best to look after…
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Green Home HD

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16 Feb 2012
by
Gerry Boyle
Hi, We're looking into how green we can make our home dialysis installations as green as possible and whether we can attract grants, Government or Local Council, to progress this. Has anyone looked…
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Innovative Inhaler Recycling Project Expanded

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30 Jan 2012
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
In February 2011 GlaxoSmithKline and the Cooperative Pharmacy in partnership with TerraCycle UK launched the first respiratory inhaler recycling programme in Europe. Forty Cooperative pharmacies…
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Recycling of Concentrate Bottles

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25 Jan 2012
by
Ben Wilson
We have just been given the green light to re-cycle all of our concentrate bottles. I'm still in the process of calculating exactly what that will mean in terms of reducing our carbon footprint but as…
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90% Less: why greener healthcare is leaner healthcare

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25 Jan 2012
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
Our conference organized in partnership with The Thames Valley Health Innovation and Education Cluster is taking place on 24th February 2012. The day offers a great opportunity to find out about the…
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The Zero Waste Challenge for 2012

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23 Jan 2012
by
Frances Mortimer
The Green Nephrology Network is taking up a "zero waste" challenge in 2012. Kidney departments will be cutting carbon and saving money by driving out waste from the dialysis process. Case studies…
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Welcome to the network for Sustainable Respiratory Care!

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11 Jan 2012
by
Rachel Stancliffe
What will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS?We are starting an exciting project, funded for a year by GSK, to improve the environmental…