Nurses are the backbone of the NHS - we cannot achieve NET ZERO without nurses! CSH are delivering training on the RCN sustainability training course. The course runs over 4 months and provides 20…
At our last Respiratory Care Sustainability Network sharing hour, we heard from Sandra Barber about her work on a Greener Respiratory Care Quality Improvement Programme in primary care sites in…
Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023.
Team members:
Laura Vale, Senior Operating Department Practitioner
Krithea Baker, Recovery Nurse…
The BMJ has recently published a 5-episode podcast series titled Planet Centred Care, which covers a range of themes related to sustainable healthcare. These include why sustainable healthcare is…
I share with you a recently published article with reflections on the need for health services and professionals implement sustainable actions. I hope you appreciate.
NHSE working with the Health Innovation North West Coast and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust have developed a reproducible process for hospitals to rationalise surgical sets, reducing carbon intensive…
Our next meeting, on Environmental Issues in Prescribing in Palliative Care, will be on Friday 10th November, 1230pm. Teams details at end of this message. We will be welcoming a speaker from Pharmacy…
Has anyone come across evidence of the carbon footprint of end of life care please, especially comparing hospice to hospital and home-based care? I have found a paper on a UK hospice carbon footprint…
In community services we are constantly disposing of scissors through delivery of treatments such as wound care and other procedures due to infection control policies. Not does this have a huge carbon…
Grundon recycling service have launched a nationwide collection and recycling service for metered dose inhalers. See the announcement here and details of the scheme here.
At present the scheme is…