Sustainable sourcing, use, and disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE) can help healthcare providers reduce the environmental impacts of their work. In this article we review supporting…
Key Learning Point: Purchase and use of a baling machine to compact waste can result in significant environmental and social savings with calculated actual financial saving.
Setting/Patient…
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10 Apr 2024 •
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Paul Williams, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Key learning point: Reducing the burden of waste and improving its segregation into appropriate streams for disposal has positive environmental impacts as well as cost savings.
Setting/Patient…
Key learning point: Simple measures to reduce, reuse and recycle paper resulted in a 75% reduction of paper use, resulting in environmental and financial savings.
Setting/Patient Group: Dialysis…
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10 Apr 2024 •
by
Libby Critchley, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Key learning point: Digitalisation of pathology reporting results in significant social as well as environmental and financial savings.
Setting/Patient Group:Dialysis unit patient…
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10 Apr 2024 •
by
Ian Stott, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Podiatrists have a shared responsibility to work and live as ‘green’ as possible, and to share this message
with patients. Reducing waste, physically and in the form of unnecessary treatment, and…
Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Green Team Competition.
Team members
Holly Slyne - Assistant director infection prevention and control…
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8 Mar 2024 •
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Holly Slyne - Assistant director infection prevention and control (IPC) and Janet Jousiffe -Deputy falls prevention coordinator
Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Green Team Competition.
Team members
• Tim Orr (Consultant Anaesthetist)
• Caroline Dalton (Recovery Lead…
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7 Mar 2024 •
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Tim Orr (Consultant Anaesthetist), Caroline Dalton (Recovery Lead Practitioner) and Matt Clarke (Principal Pharmacist, Medicines Information)
Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Green Team Competition.
Team members
● Tim Orr, Consultant Anaesthetist, Sustainability Lead Anaesthesia and Operating…
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7 Mar 2024 •
by
Tim Orr (Consultant Anaesthetist) and Poppy Robinson, Senior Operating Department Practitioner, Obstetric and Gynaecology Theatres