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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Happy Christmas! Here's what has been happening across the Green Nephrology Network in 2011
***Launch of online Green Nephrology Network***
This new network enables all members of the Green…
Jamie Traynor and Raymond Donnelly in Lanarkshire have contributed a Green Nephrology case study on the automatic shutdown of computers in the renal department over night. The scheme has been…
Cost Saving Strategies for Renal Service Deliveries is promising to be an exciting case study driven one day event. The study day will take place on 1st December 2011 in London Paddington.
If you…
The project to retro-fit heat exchangers in dialysis machines at various renal units around East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust is nearing completion. Funding for 52 machines was…