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Call for collaboration - Surgical Care Pathway Case Studies

Created on
4 Jun 2024
by
Rose Ingleton
Are you interested in understanding the carbon footprint of your surgical care pathway? Do you want to identify the carbon hotspots to target for change? We are looking for collaborators to be…
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CALL FOR SPEAKERS AT SURGICAL SUSQI EVENT

Created on
29 May 2024
by
Roberta Bullingham
Have you or a team at your hospital been involved in a sustainability quality improvement project or initiative? Has your hospital championed a change in green surgical care that we can all learn from…
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Green Surgery - how is it going?

Created on
7 May 2024
by
Frances Mortimer
It's six months since the Green Surgery report was published. How are people finding things? Has having the report been useful, and has it helped you to take forward any change locally? Mood Bhutta…
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Boot reuse pilot project & Greener AHP week

Created on
18 Apr 2024
by
Jacqueline Gordon
Dear colleagues, We are currently trying out a boot reuse pilot scheme - feasibility, problems for clinicians, etc. and working with some physio teams but need more involved. We are working with…
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Intercollegiate Green Theatre Checklist: Implementation survey

Created on
11 Apr 2024
by
Jessie Frost
This survey has been designed for completion bystaff who work in theatres in the UK, and is being conducted to understand if and how the Green Theatre Checklist is currently being implemented, and to…
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CASCADES Publishes Sustainable Occupational Therapy Playbook

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25 Mar 2024
by
Ben Whittaker
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) have published the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, which is available here. This playbook provides background…
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Midlands Greener NHS Regional Roadshow: Sustainable Surgery and Operating Theatres

Created on
16 Jan 2024
by
Kim Croasdale
Join us on 22 February to learn about how colleagues across the NHS are working to make surgery and NHS operating theatres more sustainable. Hear from experts in the field including: Prof…
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Reuse / Recycle Orthopaedic Air Walking Boot

Created on
21 Dec 2023
by
Jordan Trace
Orthopaedics and MSK departments use a lot of these boots annually. The majority of the boot is hard plastic and some is foam/fabric material. All of these are binned at the end of their use and I…
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Reducing CO2e waste through implementing remanufactured harmonic scalpels in laparoscopic surgery and replacing disposable surgical gowns with reusable surgical gowns

Created on
28 Nov 2023
by
Krithea Baker
Project completed as part of the Hampshire Hospitals Green Team Competition 2023. Team members: Laura Vale, Senior Operating Department Practitioner Krithea Baker, Recovery Nurse…
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Surgical set rationalisation

Created on
8 Nov 2023
by
Nicole Fletcher
NHSE working with the Health Innovation North West Coast and Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust have developed a reproducible process for hospitals to rationalise surgical sets, reducing carbon intensive…