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Children from Hippo and Victoria wards at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust (GOSH) haemodialysis and renal wards worked with artist Darcy Turner on Thursday 7 October during a day of activity on…
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Green Nephrology Summit 2010
Birmingham Children's Hospital, 24 September 2010
Introduction
The Green Nephrology programme was founded in 2009 to improve…