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Key learning point
Avoiding unnecessary secondary care referrals is an effective way of releasing resources in specialist units, saving on patient transport and other environmental costs.
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Summary
Background and objectivesHemodialysis resource use—especially water and power, smarter processing and reuse of postdialysis waste, and improved ecosensitive building design, insulation, and…
Key learning point:
Switching to the 44 to 1 concentration cans is a relatively easy process at negligible cost and may be a simpler method of reducing concentrate solution storage without…
Published date
May 2011
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Fraser Campbell, Renal Technician, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
This study audited the introduction of recycling of paper and cardboard within an operating theatre. All waste within a single operating theatre was collected by a dedicated team for 20 surgical…
Published date
March 2017
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McKendrick, D., Snedden, L., Bunch, R. & McGregor, H.
Abstract
Climate change represents a major global public health threat. The very provision of healthcare itself has a significant untoward effect on the environment, to which kidney care is likely…
There is a climate emergency and need to achieve 45% reduction in Carbon emission by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°c. The UK
NHS has a national environmental sustainability target to…
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Abstract
The impact of unmitigated climate change upon global health is predicted to be disastrous. However, the very provision of healthcare…
Background: Global environmental change is associated with significant health threats. The medical profession can address this challenge through advocacy, health system adaptation and workforce…
Environmental change poses pressing challenges to public health and calls for profound and far-reaching changes to policy and practice across communities and health systems. Medical schools can act…
