There's less than a week to go until our next Respiratory Care Sustainability Network 'sharing session’ - next Weds, 18th June, 13:00-13:30, via Teams. The session will be chaired by Dr Aarti Bansal, GP in Sheffield, Clinical Net Zero Lead for the Humber and North Yorkshire ICB, and Director of Greener Practice. We want to understand what the common barriers are to changing to Anti-inflammatory reliever therapy (AIR) and maintenance and reliever therapy (MART) regimes and dry powder inhalers (DPIs), whether these are from patients, clinicians or systems. What are the frequent questions, concerns or difficulties that you encounter? This session will be used to gather these FAQs with the purpose of creating a document to help answer them. We know how busy everyone is, so this will be a 'sharing half hour', from 13:00-13:30.
You can book your free place here: https://buytickets.at/centreforsustainablehealthcareltd/1715334 (please note that a voluntary £10 donation appears on the booking, but this can be amended to any amount you like including £0, so please don't be deterred from attending because of this, attendance is free!). We look forward to seeing you there.
I'm not a respiratory doctor but this recent article in Thorax is an interesting read and worth discussing at your session: Connett G, Slingo M, Sinha I, et al. Green respiratory healthcare: what really matters. Thorax Published Online First: 11 May 2025. doi: 10.1136/thorax-2025-223195
"Contrary to the suggestion that we might achieve ‘quick wins’ by switching to ‘low carbon’ inhalers, the minuscule radiative forcing and short lifetimes of the hydrofluoroalkanes [propellants] in medical aerosols make them irrelevant to the trajectory of climate change."
Similarly applicable to short lived anaesthetic gases like sevoflurane etc (but NOT nitrous oxide!).
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