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Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: USA
Issue: US and UK estimates show the supply chain to cause the majority of emissions from…
Disposable gloves are one of the biggest environmental hotspots in hospital, with more than 100 used per patient per day in intensive care. Despite this usage there are many circumstances where glove…
This study uses hybrid environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify average emissions associated with resource use in an acute inpatient unit with 49 beds and 14,427 hospitalization days and…
Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Green Team Competition.
Team members
• Dr Caroline Kendrick (Emergency Medicine Consultant)
• Dr Amy Fantham…
Published date
March 2024
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by
Dr Caroline Kendrick (Emergency Medicine Consultant) and Dr Amy Fantham (Emergency Medicine Junior Clinical Fellow)
Agnes Szmurlo presents on the important changes that dietitians can make in their roles with patients, staff and wider.
Agnes is a paediatric dietitian working in the ketogenic diet team at Great…
Case study submitted as part of Lancet Commission call for case studies.
Team members / location: Marianne Dawson, Canada, British Columbia
Issue: To scale sustainable change and not add to the…
Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023.
The project report highlights changes and initiatives implemented to reduce food cost, CO2 emissions and food…
Climate change poses a major threat to our health as well as our planet. The environment is changing, that change is accelerating, and this has direct and immediate consequences for our patients, the…
