Sustainable Healthcare

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  Alexia Paolineli posted an update 1 week ago

  Hi all! Anyone been involved in any project to reduce carbon footprint and reduce waste/increase recycling in theatres ? Have seen projects in NZ but nothing large in the UK. Would be very interested in discussing with anyone that has any experience. Thanks!
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  Emily Stevenson posted an update 1 month ago

  Can anyone point me in the direction of a resource which provides numbers for
  the environmental costs of investigations such as x-rays and ultrasound
  scans. I’m trying to demonstrate the environmental costs of a patient pathway
  and the financial/social/environmental savings of cutting out the unnecessary
  appointments and investigations. I’ve been…Read more
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    Claire Jordan replied 1 month ago

    Hi Emily
    Sounds like a really good thing to be doing. My guess is there would be a greater cost for all reasons in getting the patient there ie appointment letter, travel, parking, time etc than from the energy use of the Xray/ultrasound itself.
    I did see this though…Read more
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    Alexandra Cook replied 1 month ago

    This sounds like a great piece of work and something I have started looking into. I have been looking at different companies and havent found much.. Be really interested to share and work together if you want to?
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  Kate Lock posted an update 2 months, 1 week ago

  Hi. I have recently joined the South West Academic Health Sciences Network, and am very interested to join the conversation on sustainability within the NHS. If you have examples of great programmes to reduce the impact of NHS services on the environment, or where health services have built environmental considerations into planning service…Read more
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    Claire Jordan replied 2 months, 1 week ago

    Hi Kate
    There is a lot of work in this area across the country both at high level strategic stuff as well as small level QI things.
    You may already know about all these organisations/resources but just in case these may be good place to start:
    http://www.sduhealth.org.uk
    https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/
    http://www.ukhealthalliance.org/…Read more
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      Claire Jordan replied 2 months, 1 week ago

      Sorry looks like some of the cut and paste links are just registering as Home – they are all different organisations/resources
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    Frances Mortimer replied 2 months ago

    Hi Kate, as Claire says, there is now quite a lot of work in this area across the UK, so almost tricky to give a single response! At the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, i think that our biggest impact programmes are the Sustainable Specialties, where you work at a whole systems level across a whole specialty or discipline – combining research…Read more
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      Frances Mortimer replied 2 months ago

      Apologies – the correct link for CSH Networks is https://networks.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk. The site hosts a number of open-access networks for people interested in improving sustainability of different specialties and health professions.
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    Esther Coffin-Smith replied 1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi Kate,

    North Bristol NHS Trust has a number of work areas that we would be happy to talk through with you. To get a flavour of what we do you might want to take a look at our annual Sustainable Development Management Plan which can be found on this page: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/about-us/our-standards/sustainable-development

    Here are number of…Read more
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