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…
We want to collect together ideas for student projects in sustainable healthcare. Below are some of the projects previously suggested - does anyone have any other good ideas to add?Medical schoolWhat…
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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s project to support NHS organisations to retro-fit heat exchangers to…
Following Monday the 19th of September, as the world meets to discuss NCD’s at the UN summit in New York; many eyes will be tuned in to change. Underlying the main event is a new precipitation of…
http://www.asme.org.uk/conferences/globalisation-of-health-autumn-2011.htmlThis meeting will include a morning workshop on Sustainable Healthcare Education with case studies and evaluation.
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…
Children from Hippo and Victoria wards at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust (GOSH) haemodialysis and renal wards worked with artist Darcy Turner on Thursday 7 October during a day of activity on…
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Green Nephrology Summit 2010
Birmingham Children's Hospital, 24 September 2010
Introduction
The Green Nephrology programme was founded in 2009 to improve…