The British Journal of Renal Medicine is interested in articles about local green initiatives. I am writing one this week and thought i would base it on waste reduction in delivery of acid concentrate…
There is some interesting reading on Sustainable Business on the Guardian website and a ‘Health and Wellbeing’ link. SeehereThe director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit, David Pencheon, talks…
NICE has issued new guidance on how to promote walking and cycling to tackles our nations health problems due to inactivity. As we all know the ‘inactivity epidemic’ has massive health consequences.…
Where you live, does everyone with kidney disease know that they've got it and what it means? Are local GPs confident about how to manage them, and who will benefit from referral?
It was inspiring…
The Annual UN Climate Conference, COP18 took place last week in Doha. This year, Jonny Elliott went to represent Healthy Planet at the conference. It was a tiring, exciting and often frustrating…
A large proportion of healthcare resources go into providing care for people in their last few months of life, but it is not always apparent that the interventions they receive are what they really…
According to a new US based report 'Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Healthcare Cost Curve' sponsored by the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) and Health Care Without Harm, the…
In October 2011 The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) secured funding at the Pitch Pledge Party event, a 10:10 initiative in partnership with The Funding Network (TFN) and Guardian, for the…
The EDTNA/ERCA 42nd International Conference is inviting abstracts on Green Innovations - pioneering work to reduce the environmental burden of dialysis (closing date 15th February 2013).
The…
Picking up on the workshop run by Charlie Tomson at the Green Nephrology Summit last month on opportunities for primary and secondary prevention in kidney care, I was really glad to…