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Orthopaedic Boots - What's the carbon footprint?

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25 Oct 2022
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Joanne Sullivan
Hi All I am looking for information on the carbon footprint of the Mediboot (see picture). In Wales we use around 22,000 of these boots a year. When treatment is complete the majority of boots…
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Sustainable just in case prescribing

Created on
25 Oct 2022
by
Nicola Bevins
So sorry to have missed the meeting on 19/10. I can see that sustainable just in case prescribing was on the agenda. Would anybody be so kind as to summarise what was discussed? Any thoughts on the…
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Mapping the CO2 footprint of a Pathology Test

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21 Oct 2022
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Andrew Turner
HI all, we have been working with some of the NHS Pathology Networks and developed a Specimen Quality and Transport Dashboard, this includes a carbon footprint section that provides a set of measures…
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Meeting details Wed 19th 430pm

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17 Oct 2022
by
Kate Crossland
Please see the teams link below for our meeting this Wednesday. Agenda for the meeting: 1. Our webinar: event update 2. Carbon footprint anticipatory prescribing 3. Feedback from…
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UKHACC event- reducing carbon footprint of EOLC care- Wed 19th Oct @12

Created on
15 Oct 2022
by
Kate Crossland
The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death argued for a radical reimagining of a better system for death and dying that shifts the focus from prolonging end of life through multiple costly and often…
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Community footprints

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7 Oct 2022
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Stuart Jeffery
Hi All I am pulling together a HSDR bid to look at sustainability improvements and CO2 reductions of various car closer to homes / out of hospital / virtual ward approaches (plus a comparator with…
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Heat recovery projects

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4 Oct 2022
by
Joshua Cartwright
Hi Does anyone have any experience of heat recovery projects in any context? More specifically - waste/domestic water heat recovery. I am working within the context of…
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Next PallCareSusNet meeting Wed 19th October

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28 Sep 2022
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Kate Crossland
The next Pallative Care Sustainablitiy Network meeting is on Wednesday 19th October, 430pm. Please do join us! We will be discussing our upcoming webinar, writing about sustainability and hope, the…
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Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of single use vs reusable duodenoscopes

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26 Sep 2022
by
Robin Baddeley
A life cycle analysis study of single use vs reusable duodenoscopes has now been published in full: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35718068/ The paper focuses on the use of the endoscopes…
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Competition- can you write about sustainable healthcare?

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22 Sep 2022
by
Kate Crossland
The Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) have annouced a writing competition, with the theme 'hope'. Entries are only 800 words long, and you don't have to be an APM member to…