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This calculator makes use of carbon footprint data, contained within the Sustainable Healthcare Coalition’sCare Pathways: Guidance on Appraising Sustainability. It uses a step-wise process to sum…

*UPDATED FOR 2024*The calculator has now been updated with the latest GHG emission factors for 2024.This guide and carbon calculator have been developed by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in…

'The demand for eye care—the most common medical speciality in some countries—is increasing globally due to both demographic change and the development of eye health-care services in low-income and…

In 2015 the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) (now known as Greener NHS) in partnership with Environmental Resources Management estimated carbon footprints for the following units of healthcare…

Please find a suite of new case study templates and guidance from CSH for all network members to use. We encourage you to share the completed case studies on the networks and more widely. For…

New paper launched in conjunction with the new HealthcareLCA database. Paper discusses the new open-access database, methods and everything known about life cycle assessments (LCA's) in healthcare so…

Launch of a new Healthcare LCA Database, an up-to-date repository of published life cycle assessements within healthcare. 'HealthcareLCA brings together environmental assessments of health systems,…

The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics has a special issue about healthcare waste (scroll down to find a number of articles and…

Project completed as part of the National Green Maternity Challenge 2024-25 by the South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustImproving perinatal pelvic health outcomes by increasing uptake of…

This is a free online carbon footprint calculator for use in in-centre haemodialysis units. It measures your overall footprint and carbon intensity per patient session, and identifies the greenhouse…