The Association of Surgeons in Great Britain and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have published a Consensus Statement on Cost-effective and Sustainable Surgery. The statement is based on …
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…
Many of you are probably already aware, but there are lots of articles on sustainability issues in this month's Anaesthesia & Analgesia - see:http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/content/current
After sucessfully launching a recycling scheme in 34 theatres, across 3 theatre suites, we've got a motivated multidisciplinary group who would like to do more. Does anyone have any success (or…
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…
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…