Our next meeting, on Environmental Issues in Prescribing in Palliative Care, will be on Friday 10th November, 1230pm. Teams details at end of this message. We will be welcoming a speaker from Pharmacy…
Has anyone come across evidence of the carbon footprint of end of life care please, especially comparing hospice to hospital and home-based care? I have found a paper on a UK hospice carbon footprint…
In community services we are constantly disposing of scissors through delivery of treatments such as wound care and other procedures due to infection control policies. Not does this have a huge carbon…
Hi everyone! I am looking to improve the high quality and low carbon asthma toolkit www.greenrepractice.co.uk/asthma-toolkit and would like feedback from users. I have created a very simple google…
I've been alerted by a friend to a special issue of his journal on
climate resilient health systems (i.e. how do we adapt healthcare and health systems in the face of climate change)
Call for…
Grundon recycling service have launched a nationwide collection and recycling service for metered dose inhalers. See the announcement here and details of the scheme here.
At present the scheme is…
The CQC Medicines Optimisation Team has secured funding for research to drive innovation and accelerate improvement in medicines sustainability. This project will deliver a suite of products to…
Next week we will be hosting our second Respiratory Care Sustainability Network 'sharing hour'. It’s taking place via Zoom, Weds 27th Sep, 10:30-11:30am.
In this session we'll hear from Dr Michael…
Please find here our Palliative Care Sustainability Network September newsletter, including links to slides and recording from our recent meeting on Reducing Plastics in Healthcare.
Dear Colleagues,
May I kindly ask if anyone knows if industry suppliers can/have participated in the CSH green- healthcare wards/team competitions to help support the research (and not in terms…