Events
Greener AHP Week 17 – 24 April 2023
One of the biggest threats to our health, and our planet, is climate change. Contributing around 4% of UK emissions, the NHS and other UK health…
Im attending the7th Annual Infection Control, Sterilization & Decontamination in Healthcare Conference itomorrow in London. Pleased to see the following as key points on the agenda, and will be…
wwf.org.uk/earth-hour
"Earth Hour is your time to switch off from distractions and focus on our world"
Anyone got interesting ideas on what they will be doing if they "switch off for an…
BMJ and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change present a new one-day conference that will empower healthcare professionals to respond to the health emergency that climate change brings. Net Zero…
Congratulations to Dr Chantelle Rizan, Clinical Lecturer in Sustainable Healthcare at Brighton and Sussex Medical School and CSH Associate, who was recently conferred the title of PhD for her thesis…
A research project exploring Lean management for greener practices in surgery is being conducted by intercalating medical students from Imperial College London.
We are writing to request an…
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I was wondering if anyone has any experience of introducing potable water filters in their department or have done any work around the carbon saving an accepatbility of this?
Also, does…
We have had a request from a student completing a dissertation as part of an MBA at Warwick University focussing on drivers and barriers of the circular economy for single-use plastics in the NHS.…
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Does anyone have a Penthrox SOP/BC for colonoscopy that you could share with me? Im trying to help my network work through nitrous oxide waste and this would be super helpful. I appreciate that…
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…