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Read our pesrpectives as final year medical students on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into medical education curricula through quality improvement projects.
Resources on climate change and health have been developed by the Faculty of Public Health Sustainable Development Special Interest Group. Although intended primarily for Public Health Trainees, they…
Congratulations and thanks to SanYuMay for this extremely helpful article summarising current knowledge on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into the medical curriculum.
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Very excitingly, the AOMRC has finallypublished its report, "Training for better outcomes: Developing quality improvement into practice", includinga QI curriculum which embeds sustainable healthcare…
Improving resource use by reusing and recycling dialysis reverse osmosis (RO) system reject water. ROsystem reject water was reused to provide steam for sterilising autoclave systems, for waste…
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The case study and discussion outlined above includes most of the information required to develop a sound business case for a programme to retro-fit heat exchangers to existing…
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December 2012
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Steve Milne, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
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The introduction of remote monitoring with teleconsultation has the potential to improve the targeting of specialist care resources (financial and environmental) to deliver the…
RCNresourcesto use in your workplace to raise awareness of appropriate glove use - these include a poster, a leaflet and a selfie board. The resources can be used in any way that fits in with your…
Our article published today!"The contribution of anaesthesia to the environmental impact of healthcare is significant and visible, but amenable to change. We believe that this places anaesthetists in…
Published date
March 2019
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Shelton, C.L., McBain, S.C., Mortimer, F. and White, S.M.
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Light fitting change resulted in improved the energy efficiency leading to carbon reduction whilst improving illumination and saving finances.
Setting/Patient Group:Renal Unit…
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March 2012
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Mr Nsipa Siwale, Energy Manager, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust