A carbon footprint study of a UK renal service published in the Quarterly Journal of Medicinethis month confirms the importance of tackling supply chain emissions, revealing that the procurement of…
The Green Nephrology programme is looking for an enthusiastic health professional with experience in kidney care. After a brilliant first year, the programme is seeking to build the national Green…
Royal College of Nursing activists were heading home to “green” their wards after training sessions at the Joint Reps conference last week. It was great to be invited along to the Joint…
Exciting Innovative Sustainability Scholarship Opportunity - 2 Posts Available. The First in Primary Care in the UK. NHS EDUCATION –SOUTH WEST Severn Deanery School of Primary Care Purpose: The…
As many of you will know, the Green Nephrology team had a busy time at the recent joint British Renal Society and Renal Association meeting in Manchester.
I’m grateful to Vifor for the invitation…
“Thanks to Green Nephrology, sustainability is now regarded as an integral part of quality. The work over the past year has caught the imagination of the whole kidney community and has launched a…
Over a weekend in April 15 enthusiastic students arrived in London having travelled from as far as Belgium and Belfast, eager to start an international Climate Change and Health programme with the…
Have you ever thought about how much paper we dispose of on a daily basis whilst at work? No, well you should. The other day I was putting a patient on dialysis, a simple cannulation procedure. I…
No matter how much we hear about the health threats of global warming and the benefits of low carbon lifestyles, there are times as we go about our daily lives when we can still feel powerless to make…
Between March 31st 2008 and April 1st 2009, the renal team in a DGH not too far from me requested that their patients attend the hospital's radiology department as outpatients on 534 occasions…