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PPE expiry dates and waste

Created on
21 Oct 2022
by
Iona Sinclair
Hi everyone, I was recently alerted (as the office eco warrior) by our Infection Prevention and Control Lead that a bunch of our unused single-use PPE items (mainly visors) had gone 'out of date'.…
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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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SLT susnet Networking event!

Created on
16 Oct 2022
by
Rachel McLean
Exciting news! We’re hosting our second networking event onTuesday 6th December,7-8pm BST. We’d love to meet with anyone working in SLT (anywhere in the world!) who has an interest in…
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BCHC Paediatric SLT sustainability project - help needed for more sustainable PPE/equipment & reducing plastics!

Created on
10 Oct 2022
by
Rebecca Joseph
Hi everyone We are a small group from Birmingham Community Healthcare Paediatric SLT team who have started a project to look at simple steps in making SLT care sustainable and more in line with the…
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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
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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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SLTs, social prescribing and sustainability

Created on
18 Jul 2022
by
Sivan Coleman
I attended an exciting AHP Sustainability Networking event last week that got me thinking about a lot of things but in particular social prescribing. Social prescribing can be considered…