SusQI project completed as part of the Hywel Dda University Health Board Green Team Competition from September 2022-January 2023.
The aim of this project was to help create a healthier Wales by…
A collection of case studies to celebrate the first year of Greener Primary Care Wales. Case studies include examples from GP, dental practice, community pharmacies and eye care. Lots of useful…
Open access article
Abstract: GI endoscopy is highly resource-intensive with a significant contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste generation. Sustainable endoscopy in the context…
Launch of a new Healthcare LCA Database, an up-to-date repository of published life cycle assessements within healthcare.
'HealthcareLCA brings together environmental assessments of health systems,…
This is a new editorial announcing a new series to come in the Intensive Care Medicinejournal and contains a useful infographic about improving environmental sustainability in…
This 2016 report from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediactics and Child Health examines the impact of exposure to air pollution across the course of a lifetime. The…
This document sets out plans for NHS Scotland to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and impact on the environment, adapt to climate change and to better contribute to the United Nation sustainable…
Improving resource use by reusing and recycling dialysis reverse osmosis (RO) system reject water. ROsystem reject water was reused to provide steam for sterilising autoclave systems, for waste…
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Abstract
The US Environmental Protection Agency Resource Conservation website begins: “Natural resource and energy conservation is achieved by…
The SHARE conference is an international conference that took place 7 May 2021, hosted in partnership between Bighton & Sussex Medical School and the University of Brighton School of Health…