Dental Sustainability Network

A framwork for sharing your experience and progress in teaching sustainability and sustainability in QI with other educators and colleagues.

Project completed as part of the Northampton Green Team Competition 2022.Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wideIssue to be addressed:Personal protective equipment (PPE) use increased over the pandemic but…

Please find a suite of new case study templates and guidance from CSH for all network members to use. We encourage you to share the completed case studies on the networks and more widely. For…

The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics has a special issue about healthcare waste (scroll down to find a number of articles and…

All 212 NHS trusts in England – including more than 1,000 hospitals and healthcare facilities – now have a green plan in place, outlining how they will reduce carbon emissions while improving patient…

Great study from Rizan et al (2021) estimating 'the carbon footprint and financial cost of decontaminating (steam sterilization) and packaging reusable surgical instruments. The study indicateshow the…

In this review of 49 clinical guidelines from British, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Australian, European, German, and US-American medical associations, the authors found keywords related to planetary…

Professor Nicolas Martin, Mr Steve Mulligan and co-authorshave recently published two articles on sustainable oral healthcarein the Dental Update Journal. Both parts can be found below. Part…

This two-part article, by Professor Nicolas Martin and co-authors, provides a comprehensive scoping review on sustainability in oral healthcare. Both parts are freely accessible using the links…

Professor Nicolas Martin, Mr Steven Mulligan and the FDI World Dental Federation Sustainability task team are involved in a number of exciting projects. One of these projects is the creation of a…