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Embedding Sustainable Occupational Therapy in Education and Research - presentation and discussion SOTER group updates.

Healthcare contributes nearly 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, with significant environmental impacts across the lifecycle of health technologies (from production to disposal). Yet, these…

Case study exploring pilots of the 'Show Me Your Meds Please' (SMYM) project, an approach where community staff ask a simple screening question, “Show me your meds, please?” which helps to identify…

This study conducted a full life-cycle assessment (LCA) comparing single-use video laryngoscopes with a reusable model and found that single-use devices have a dramatically higher environmental…

Susnet Occupational Therapy MeetingAt this meeting Jackie Gordon presented different ways to get started in Sustainability in clinical practice; giving tips on quick wins, starting projects, finding…

The article proposes some ways in which carbon footprints can be used to inform strategy for sustainable healthcare and highlights areas to apply caution.

A team from Spain have published a method to establish the material composition of commonly used endoscopic accessories and then used life cycle assessment methodology to quantify the carbon footprint…

Hello all Happy to share a recently published article that look at new clinical reasoning (professional reasoning) that can specifically target environmental sustainable healthcare provision. The…

This report uses case studies to discuss how the different variables of sustainable value may be measured in practice.

Improving productivity, costs and environmental impact in international eye health services: using the 'eyefficiency' cataract surgical services auditing tool to assess the value of cataract surgical…