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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We have recently introduced peripheral norad to use in place of metaraminol. I was just wondering if any other units have done this and what the reason was. I think that norad will be…
My first podcast- looking at being green in health care. I'm interviewing Dr Finella Craig,Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Care Medicine at Great Ormond Street
Green 4 Health: Dr Fin Craig…
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I am looking for information on the carbon footprint of the Mediboot (see picture).
In Wales we use around 22,000 of these boots a year. When treatment is complete the majority of boots…
HI all, we have been working with some of the NHS Pathology Networks and developed a Specimen Quality and Transport Dashboard, this includes a carbon footprint section that provides a set of measures…
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I am looking to try to update our CVC packs, with the aim to remove a lot of the uneccessary implements/pots/plastic that they contain (but also to include what we actually do…
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I am pulling together a HSDR bid to look at sustainability improvements and CO2 reductions of various car closer to homes / out of hospital / virtual ward approaches (plus a comparator with…
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Does anyone have any experience of heat recovery projects in any context?
More specifically - waste/domestic water heat recovery. I am working within the context of…
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…