Yesterday CSH hosted the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Green Ward Competition showcase and awards ceremony.
The combined projects of the five Green Ward Competition teams have projected annual…
SHARE conference - Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise
6 May 2022 10am-4pm BST (British Standard Time)
Free on Zoom - open to anyone interested in sustainable…
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians has developed a tool for optical practices to help them assess their progress on the journey towards sustainability.
Practices can use this to…
UK Attitudes towards waste in Cataract Surgery
Cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the UK, and…
I'd like to see a section in the BNF about carbon footprints of care. Please help achieve this by pushing for it with any contacts you have.
I know that it's not going to be feasible to give exact…
Hi All,
Does anyone know of any research/studies that have looked at how the carbon footprint of tablet medication compares with the carbon footprint of liquid medication?
Many…
'A number of studies have estimated the carbon footprint of healthcare provision in a variety of contexts, but the emission factors used to account for associated waste vary widely and are not…
Summary
Routine use of a blood test to rule out pre-eclampsia which is keeping thousands of pregnant women safe and out of hospital, as well as reducing NHS costs, has carbon reduction…
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgery in the world and the UK. Therefore, there are a number of papers looking at carbon footprint of cataract surgery and ways to reduce it.
In…
The Canadian Federation of Medical Students Health and Environment Adaptive Reponse Task Force recently released this report:
CFMS HEART: National Report on Planetary Health Education…