Resource library

Project completed as part of the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust Green Team Competition Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wide Issue to be addressed: 5% of the carbon footprint of acute…

Key learning point “Finding money for green initiatives is always difficult, It would be wonderful if the Unit would re-invest some of its cost savings into more carbon reductions, for example to…

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, with funding from Health Education England, developed this free-to-access Guide for improving the sustainability of a dental practice. The Guideis intended…

The Royal College of Physicians published a new report 'Outpatients: the future – adding value through sustainability' which seeks to re-evaluate the purpose of outpatient care and align those…

Realising the health benefits of acting on air pollution This report on air pollution describes the current problem, the reasons it exists and the critical need to resolve it, and includes high…

Short animation to raise awareness of the NHS contribution to environmental issues such as climate change and air pollution, and encourage health professionals to look for environmentally friendly…

We describe a clinical-skills based approach to teaching medical and public health students the health effects of climate change. This resource presents eleven simulation exercises used with over 100…

A really interesting article looking at the individual contribution of different methods of ‘greening’ strategies in operating theatres. It highlights how changesin anaesthetic gas usage can have…

Thedegroeneic.nl website is in Dutch forThe Green ICU partnership in the Netherlands, but Chrome has a translation extension to read the content in English.

This Sustainable Hospital website is a Dutch initiative connecting researchers with expertise in engineering, design and policy (TU Delft); medical sciences (Erasmus MC); operations & technology…