The Green Nephrology Programme successfully bid for funding for the Heat Exchangers project from 10:10 in 2011. The objective is to save energy and carbon in kidney care by encouraging retrofitting of…
June has arrived and this month's green theme is... cycling. Bike Week 2012 is running from 16-24 June this year and it would be great if kidney units could take part.
The main aim is to encourage…
Some of you have asked whether you can donate money to help our work. We have always accepted cheques, but The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) has now signed up to Just Giving to make it…
On the 23rd of March I was lucky to be among a group of respiratory professionals, representatives from primary care, nursing, academic and the pharmaceutical industry as we came together to discuss…
A little while ago GlaxoSmithKline funded a joint study with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford and Accenture. The outcome was a report entitled "Climate Change…
Hi all, it's 28 March and that means... NHS Sustainability Day! You might have seen my blog* with 5 ideas for kidney units last week? Even if you've got nothing planned, it's not too late to sponsor a…
The Kings Fund has published two papers on on environmentally sustainable health and social care. Both reports are based on a literature review and stakeholder consultation carried out by The King’s…
The Kings Fund has published two papers on environmentally sustainable health and social care. Both reports are based on a literature review and stakeholder consultation carried out by The King’s Fund…
Value is a concept which is making waves in the management / leadership / policy world of medicine at the moment. It is not an entirely new concept, but has been worked on and promoted as an approach…
Happy World Kidney Day! A day for raising the importance of healthy kidneys everywhere. A moment to stop and thank our own kidneys - and make sure we are doing our best to look after…