- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Conferences and Exhibitions Management
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
2022-2024
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
2023
Wythenshawe Hospital
2023
GI endoscopy is highly resource-intensive with a significant contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste generation. Sustainable in the context of climate change now focus mainstream discussions between providers, units professional societies. In addition broader global challenges, there are some specific measures relevant their practices, which could significantly reduce environmental impact. Awareness these issues guidance on practical interventions mitigate carbon footprint...
In this sustainability quality improvement project, we proposed a new lean pathway for performing curette and cautery minor skin surgery evaluated our project’s social, patient, economic, environmental population outcomes. If the is embedded into routine clinical practice, could potentially lead to £4.08 (excluding VAT) 1.24 kgCO2e per procedure of costs carbon emissions savings, respectively. Surgical site infection rates procedures performed with sterile gloves (n = 12) non-sterile nitrile...
<h3>Introduction and Aims</h3> The healthcare industry has a substantial carbon footprint the recent 2022 Health Care Act committed NHS to net zero by 2040. In 2022, BASL published its Sustainability Strategy reduce Association's footprint. sustainability of different ways presenting posters is not known. aim this study was, therefore, analyse compare three options organising displaying during annual conference. <h3>Methods</h3> A comparative analysis models poster display was performed...
Personal protective equipment has important environmental impacts, assessing these impacts is therefore an element of personal design. We applied carbon footprinting methodology to Bubble-PAPR
<h3>Aims and Objectives</h3> After reading the FORCE publication our hospital set out to adopt suggestions of study manage torus or 'buckle' fractures with offer a bandage instead wrist splint. The full report includes detailed health economic results but it struck us that this change could also contribute carbon net zero NHS. This is an issue great significance both children young people clinicians. We wanted evaluate potential benefit in practice sought expertise Centre for Sustainable...