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Orthopaedic Boots - What's the carbon footprint?

Created on
25 Oct 2022
by
Joanne Sullivan
Hi All I am looking for information on the carbon footprint of the Mediboot (see picture). In Wales we use around 22,000 of these boots a year. When treatment is complete the majority of boots…
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Mapping the CO2 footprint of a Pathology Test

Created on
21 Oct 2022
by
Andrew Turner
HI all, we have been working with some of the NHS Pathology Networks and developed a Specimen Quality and Transport Dashboard, this includes a carbon footprint section that provides a set of measures…
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Community footprints

Created on
7 Oct 2022
by
Stuart Jeffery
Hi All I am pulling together a HSDR bid to look at sustainability improvements and CO2 reductions of various car closer to homes / out of hospital / virtual ward approaches (plus a comparator with…
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Heat recovery projects

Created on
4 Oct 2022
by
Joshua Cartwright
Hi Does anyone have any experience of heat recovery projects in any context? More specifically - waste/domestic water heat recovery. I am working within the context of…
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Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of single use vs reusable duodenoscopes

Created on
26 Sep 2022
by
Robin Baddeley
A life cycle analysis study of single use vs reusable duodenoscopes has now been published in full: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35718068/ The paper focuses on the use of the endoscopes…
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Waste Anesthesia Gas Capture

Created on
19 Sep 2022
by
Dan McElroy
Hello, I did see a few brief discussions regarding WAG capture technology. Is anyone currently useing it with in their hospital? Is there any supporting data that you can point…
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RSNA - anyone going?

Created on
15 Sep 2022
by
Iain Macleod
Hi folks I'm not able to make it this year, but is anyone else going? Looking through the programme I can't see much related to sustainability and wondered if anyone on this network might be…
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Nuclear medicine environmental sustainability roundtable

Created on
10 Aug 2022
by
Nathan Dickinson
A free online roundtable on nuclear medicine environmental sustainability has been organised through the IPEM Environmental Sustainability Committee, on Friday 9th September, 12:00-13:00. The agenda…
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CT contrast recycling

Created on
19 Jul 2022
by
Nick Gulliver
https://www.gehealthcare.co.uk/article/recycling-iodine-how-hospitals-are-keeping-contrast-media-in-the-circular-economy GE have a recycling iodine programme (for Omnipaque CT contrast media) . We…