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1 week until our next Sustainable Respiratory Care 'sharing hour' - How can a visual guide support high quality and low carbon asthma reviews?

Created on
23 Apr 2024
by
Jennifer Nixon
This time next week, we'll be discussing what we can focus on during asthma reviews with our patients. What will help them understand their condition better, take their preventer inhaler, and use the…
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Call for papers on Sustainable Medicine Use

Created on
22 Apr 2024
by
Nuala Hampson
Call for papers for a special themed issue of the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice on the climate, nature and pollution crises and how more sustainable medicines use can make a…
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CASCADES Publishes Sustainable Occupational Therapy Playbook

Created on
25 Mar 2024
by
Ben Whittaker
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) have published the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, which is available here. This playbook provides background…
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Recycling schemes for CPAP packaging.

Created on
22 Mar 2024
by
Madeleine Fairweather
As a physiologist I play a significant role in delivering the CPAP service at my Trust. Quite frankly it is terribly wasteful and so for my first post I would like to pose a question: “does anyone…
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Usage of single-use endoscope valves

Created on
15 Mar 2024
by
Michael Perrot
What is your opinion on the use of disposable endoscope valves? We cannot recognise any advantage here - apart from the 'saved' reprocessing. Are there any scientific studies on this? Of course, the…
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Green Endoscopy Advice

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22 Feb 2024
by
Louisa Thomson
I am an Improvement Practitioner working at the RUH, Bath. Today, we held our relaunch of the Green Endoscopy Group. Lots of ideas, but we are focussing on some 'quick' wins to be begin with and would…
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Disposable vapes ban - an environmental good news story!

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7 Feb 2024
by
Jennifer Nixon
There aren't many environmental good news stories at the moment, so I wanted to highlight a recent one, which will also have huge health benefits, especially for respiratory health. Following the…
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Call for new co-leads for the Respiratory Care Sustainability Network

Created on
16 Jan 2024
by
Jennifer Nixon
We are seeking 1-2 new co-leads for the Respiratory Care Sustainability Network. We are keen to have co-leads representing the whole multi-disciplinary respiratory team, so are particularly keen to…
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Call for new members for the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP)

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9 Jan 2024
by
Jennifer Nixon
The Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP)is seeking to recruit up to sevennew expert members and up to twonew lay members. COMEAP is a Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)…
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Climate change as a risk to respiratory health. Recording from Pharmacy Susnet online event 15th Nov now available!

Created on
13 Dec 2023
by
Nuala Hampson
The recording of the 15th Nov Pharmacy SusNet event is now available on the CSH YouTube channel here -Pharmacy Susnet : Climate Change as a risk to respiratory health - the greener agenda…