The Multi-Professional Deanery, part of the East of England Local Education and Training Board (LETB), is seeking to appoint a Sustainability Fellow for a period of 12 months who will be responsible…
To consider how the consultation on priority sustainability learning outcomes is relevant to you and your medical school, we recommend inviting medical school faculty to a focus group to devise a…
The Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) Network is inviting lead medical schools, deaneries and Royal Colleges to partner on an 18-month project to support implementation of sustainability learning…
We have a 766 m2, 28 station renal unit that is not linked to any other hospital building. I have estimated some benchmark figures for our unit.
Southend renal unit annual…
NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts can bid for a share of £50 million capital funding to invest during 2013-14. The funding will support new and innovative projects to improve energy efficiency, reduce…
Green Nephrology in the BMJ! Commenting on a Green Nephrology study into savings from green initiatives in kidney units, National Clinical Director for Kidney Care, Dr Donal O'Donoghue, said "it’s not…
Consultation on the new Sustainable Development Strategy for the health and care system was launched last week with Sir Neil McKay, Sir David Nicholson, Duncan Selbie and Mike Farrar all committing…
The NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy has set targets for the reduction of GHG emissions within the NHS. Taking 2007 levels as the baseline, the strategy requires an 80% reduction before 2050 and a 34%…
The British Journal of Renal Medicine is interested in articles about local green initiatives. I am writing one this week and thought i would base it on waste reduction in delivery of acid concentrate…