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Following a pilot period, the Greener Palliative Care Award Bronze Criteria has been made available for free, for any organisation in the speciality to work towards environmental sustainability.…
CSH's Nursing & Midwifery Susnet January Event.About the speakerDavid is a registered nurse, specialised in emergency and critical care and tropical medicine, and holds a master's degree in global…
A series of webinars is being held to support transplant centres in reviewing and rationalising the theatre tray instruments.Resources will be posted here after each of the webinars.
The guide lists 13 high impact and practical clinical recommendations for decarbonising elective hip replacement surgery, covering every step of the patient pathway from community care and referral…
This resource from Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) is part of the‘greener’ pathwaysseries. It highlightsthesteps that can be taken by trusts to decarbonise theelectivehip replacement pathway,…
Article discussing the environmental consequences of endoscopy work. This considers the amount and type of waste produced as well as the energy required for this branch of healthcare.
The study uses Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the carbon footprints of 3 vaginal speculum: a single-use acrylic and two reusable stainless steel. Overall, both types of reusables were found…
Published date
August 2020
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by
Donahue LM, Hilton S, Bell SG, Williams BC, Keoleian GA.
ABSTRACT
High-technology medicine saves lives and produces waste; this is the case of dialysis. The increasing amounts of waste products can be biologically dangerous in different ways: some…
