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Dear all,
It's a difficult day for the NHS today. We know things could be different, in many ways.
One thing we can celebrate is the ambitious plan to create a Net Zero NHS.
Please…
Slides attached - for my dissertation I interviewed OTs that were taking therapy outdoors in nature. Five worked in NHS settings, one worked for a charity and one in a social enterprise. Here are…
Launch of a new Healthcare LCA Database, an up-to-date repository of published life cycle assessements within healthcare.
'HealthcareLCA brings together environmental assessments of health systems,…
Extremely valuable practical review demonstrating what we can do as dermatolgists to become more sustainable. Great use of figures and diagrams and very useful tables: dermatologic surgery table is a…
Read our co-authored paper on the Imperative for reducing the environmental impact of clinical laboratories.
Abstract:Clinical laboratories are significant contributors to the environmental burden…
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…
This article looks at how public health is becoming increasingly threatened by global warming, land use, and changing wildfire patterns that shape vegetation type, structure, and biodiversity and…
The soils of five potted plants cultivated within a hospital were investigated for the presence of fungal opportunistic pathogens of humans. A total of 16 potentially pathogenic species were isolated,…
Building designs for NICU - including ecological sustainability and green spaces, plant, outdoor areas and views of nature for reduced stress levels for staff and patients.
Published date
May 2021
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by
Stephen Verderber, Seth Gray, Shivathmikha SureshKumar, Damian Kercz, and Christopher Parshuram,