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This report from Eunomia and Systemiq quantifies the environmental and financial impacts of single-use plastics in the European and North American healthcare sectors across seven high-volume product…
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September 2025
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Euomia Research & Consulting: Pallavi Madakasira, Simon Hann, Iris Liu, Zoë Hodges / Systemiq: Yoni Shiran, Alexandre Harry, Daniel Barraclough
Interventions that consider climate change, sustainability, and nature should be integral to health system functioning. Placing sustainability at the core of the NHS’s future offers opportunities to…
Project completed as part of the North East London 2023 Green Team Competition by the Limb reconstruction and orthopaedic research departments at the Royal London Hospital (Barts Health NHS…
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May 2023
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Borra, C., Wood, R., Church, D., Hilton, C. and O'Brien, J.
The Nature for Health Resource Hub, developed through collaboration between Natural England and the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, provides free tools and guidance for developing green spaces on…
Embedding and Connecting Prevention in Specialist PathwaysBarts Health Social Prescribing Toolkit for secondary care for heart attack care and other specialist pathways.
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April 2025
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Barts Health NHS Trust Community Led Prevention Team, Transformation Partners in Health and Care (TPHC)
Foreword"In 2020, the NHS became the first healthcare system in the world to commit to becoming net zero.This commitment was made in response to the evidence that climate change is no longer a distant…
Project completed as part of the 2024/25 RUH Bath Green Team Competition.Team members:Sian Griffiths, Consultant Radiographer Urology Specialist, Hazel Clarke, Macmillan Radiotherapy Late Effects…
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February 2025
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Sian Griffiths, Consultant Radiographer Urology Specialist, Hazel Clarke, Macmillan Radiotherapy Late Effects Radiographer
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the London Green Celebration Event. It was a pleasure to shine a spotlight on the incredible people and projects driving sustainability across London’s NHS.The…
In a new report from the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change – Building a Climate-Resilient Health System in the UK – the health community calls on the UK and devolved governments to urgently put…
Abstract
The healthcare sector is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Gases that contribute to climate change include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons.…
