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…
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CHS) secured funding at last Monday's Pitch Pledge Party Event for the promotion of retrofitting heat exchangers to kidney dialysis machines throughout the…
Vote for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare to win £1010 to cut carbon emissions!
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s project to support NHS organisations to retro-fit heat exchangers to…
The 2010 survey of Green Nephrology Local Representatives has revealed a range of local action under way, with cross-pollination of ideas from one renal centre to another. The survey identified a need…
A carbonfootprintingstudypublished inHemodialysisInternationalthis month comparingin-centreand homehaemodialysishighlights that the frequency of treatments has a big impact on carbon emissions.…
From November 2010, I will take over from Andy Connor as the next Green Nephrology Fellow, I am both excited by the tremendous developments that have occurred in little over a year and slightly…