The Campaign for Greener Healthcare

The Campaign for Greener Healthcare works closely with the relevant partners both within and outside the NHS to create achievable, lasting sustainability plans based on the best evidence from around the world.

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  1. Sustainable healthcare education package for medical schools 2010-11

    The Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) network is a fast-growing group of clinicians, academics and students who have been developing teaching materials linked to Tomorrow’s Doctors outcomes. In academic year 2010-11, these materials and approaches will be tested in a range of medical school settings and evaluated collectively to produce data beyond a series of school-based case studies. Learning objectives, lesson templates, slide sets and evaluation forms are open access.

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 30 November 2010 | Direct link | Comment on this

  2. Case study and how-to guide: reduce, re-use, recycle in the dialysis unit

    The three case studies outlined here show that the principles most commonly used to underpin waste reduction strategies – reduce, reuse, recycle – can be successfully applied to renal units, and that financial savings can be made. Applying these strategies can be remarkably simple, and the repetitive nature of the dialysis treatments means that the benefits are continually accrued. The final part of this ‘How to…’ guide describes how to undertake a waste audit, which will allow individual units to identify where best to focus their attention. Green Nephrology programme 2009-10.

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 16 April 2010 | Download | Comment on this

  3. Transforming Clinical Practice

    Sets out the model of sustainable clinical practice developed by the Campaign for Greener Healthcare.

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 02 December 2009 | Comment on this

  4. Case study and how-to guide: telephone clinics in follow-up of renal transplant recipients

    Renal units have traditionally used outpatient clinics to provide routine follow up to their transplanted patients, although the care required is often very simple and the patients typically feel well. The renal unit at the University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire has been successfully running a twice-monthly telephone clinic to provide follow up to these patients since 2006. Patients are offered the choice to remain in the traditional follow up system or switch to quarterly telephone clinic follow up, with just one annual traditional (‘face-to-face’) outpatient appointment at their local renal clinic. Green Nephrology programme 2009-10.

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 19 January 2010 | Download | Comment on this

  5. Case study and how-to guide: retrofit of heat-exchangers to haemodialysis machines

    Renal technicians at the Maidstone dialysis unit have investigated the potential costs and benefits of retro-fitting heat exchangers to their existing Braun Dialog+ haemodialysis machines. They calculated that an investment of £15,687 to fit heat exchangers to all 83 machines across the Kent and Canterbury renal service would deliver an annual saving of £3988.15 from reduced electricity consumption, with an annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 22.6 Tonnes of CO2 equivalents. Green Nephrology programme 2009-2010.

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 12 January 2010 | Download | Comment on this

  6. Green nephrology resource page

    A collection of downloadable Mircrosoft PowerPoint presentations, documents, contact lists and other resources related to green nephrology, including an email discussion list.

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 01 June 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  7. Real NHS nappies?

    When neurologist Jenny Vaughan enrolled her baby son at the hospital nursery, the staff were so wary of his reusable nappies that she had to interrupt her clinics to change them herself. One year on and the whole nursery has gone disposable-free! Could NH

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 29 May 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  8. David Pencheon on Green Nephrology

    David Pencheon, Director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit, comments on the Green Nephrology Summit organised by the Campaign for Greener Healthcare and sponsored by Baxter Healthcare.

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 29 May 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  9. Nicholas Hoenich at the green nephrology summit

    Nicholas Hoenich from Newcastle University shares his ideas about practical measures that can be undertaken in Renal Units to improve their sustainability. Ideas include re-use of waste water, recycling of plastics and energy efficiency.

    from The Campaign for Greener Healthcare on 29 May 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  10. Mapping Greener Healthcare

    The NHS in the South East recognized the importance of sustainability in their South East Regional Health Strategy for 2008. As a result the two Regional Directors of Public Health, John Newton and Yvonne Doyle, commissioned the Campaign for Greener Healt

    by Ingeborg Steinbach on 29 May 2009 | Comment on this

  11. Less of the same is not the answer

    by Frances Mortimer on 28 May 2009 | Comment on this

  12. The Green Nephrology Programme

    by Frances Mortimer on 28 May 2009 | Comment on this