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This practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement…
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Health systems are significant contributors to carbon emissions, and the effects of climate change negatively impact human health. The chapter outlines the role of healthcare providers…
Quality improvement (QI) projects are a mandatory part of postgraduate medical training in the UK and graduating medical students must be competent in QI theory. We evaluated an educational toolkit…
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Spooner, R., Stanford, V., Parslow-Williams, S., Mortimer, F., & Leedham-Green, K.
The healthcare sector is a major contributor to climate change and there are international calls to mitigate environmental degradation through more sustainable forms of clinical care. The UK…
There is a pressing need for more sustainable healthcare. UK medical graduates are required to apply social, economic, and environmental principles of sustainability to their practice. The Centre for…
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Clery P, d'Arch Smith S, Marsden O, and Leedham-Green K.
This paper presents the results of theclimate and healthscorecardproject, the first known peer-reviewed study to compare the green credentials of UK health organisations.11 of 25 invited UK health…
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Cookea, E., Cussans, A., Clack, A., & Cornford, C.
A link to information on the Fostair Nexthaler plan for clinicians wanting to give patients more resources for better inhaler usage. There are "downloadable resources" on the page - mainly user…
Presentation given by Ka Yan Hess and Felicity Murray to Greener AHP Online Networking Event, 12 Oct 2022. Student research project by F. Murray, D. Kerekesova, Y.H. Lai and N. Mendiola, collecting…
In 2015 the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) (now known as Greener NHS) in partnership with Environmental Resources Management estimated carbon footprints for the following units of healthcare…
