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Practice Greenhealth is an American organisation working to promote sustainable, eco-friendly practices in healthcare https://practicegreenhealth.org/initiatives/greening-operating-room. This tool can…
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The case study and discussion outlined above includes most of the information required to develop a sound business case for a programme to retro-fit heat exchangers to existing…
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December 2012
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Steve Milne, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
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The introduction of remote monitoring with teleconsultation has the potential to improve the targeting of specialist care resources (financial and environmental) to deliver the…
Respiratory Futures spoke to Dr Aarti Bansal, GP, Director of Greener Practice and Clinical Net Zero Lead for Humber and North Yorkshire ICB. In this article, Aarti shares about the recent creation of…
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Light fitting change resulted in improved the energy efficiency leading to carbon reduction whilst improving illumination and saving finances.
Setting/Patient Group:Renal Unit…
Published date
March 2012
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Mr Nsipa Siwale, Energy Manager, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Keele University Medical School educators have developed their own cases based around four prominent types of waste within the NHS: food, pharmaceutical, clinical and fuel, which they have given…
Case studies from 2016/17 onwards from eight medical and health professional schools in the UK, Brazil and USA.
The case studiesrepresent successful integration of sustainable healthcare education,…
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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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Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust undertook a Green Team Competition in 2017-2018.
The following projects focussed on reduction of wasted blood tests and…
