Problem spaceWhat we prescribe saves lives, but how we prescribe damages the planet. Healthcare accounts for approximately 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and across health systems…
Administering appropriate parenteral medications in dialysis care by IV push, instead of infusion, saves time, money, and plastic. We aim to expand beyond IV iron to appropriate IV antimicrobials for…
A recent paper (Jia et al. European Radiology (2026) 36:2186–2197, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-025-12023-z) looks at the emissions caused by medical imaging data storage. Although data storage is…
The 2026 Greenhouse Gas Reporting conversion factors are available at Greenhouse gas reporting: conversion factors 2026 - GOV.UK.There are some interesting updates and changes in some of the…
Here are a couple of useful resources for benchmarking carbon emissions. The Lancet has recently published Lancet MedZero which promises to be a very useful website. Its focus is not currently…
Last year a consortium led by J R of the Masaryk University in Czechia with 4 other partner organisations including ECRIN, University College Cork, the University of Nicosia and Universidade Nova de…
Hey Team!Do we know if anyone has done anything on reducing environmental impact from transport to dialysis?This could include, but not limited to;improving allocation of patients to nearest dialysis…
Two recent papers — one inLancet Oncology (Bryant et al., 2024) and one inLancet Planetary Health (Malmberg et al., 2024) — have looked at the environmental impact of how we prescribe checkpoint…
Five years of Greener NHS: improved carbon footprint assessment of the National Health Service in England - The Lancet Planetary Health is an update on the results and and methodology used to…