Case studies in Green Nephrology are indexed from the Mapping Greener Healthcare site at this address. Projects to date range from waste reduction in haemodialysis to telephone and video clinics. Local kidney units are encouraged to share their experiences and contribute case studies - big or small!
Please get in touch if you have a local project which you would be willing to share as a case study.
This report presents what a network of public health registrars in the UK - chaired by Dr. James Smith and Dr. Stephen Dorey - have been doing to accelerate the shift to a more sustainable way of living and working. It offers examples of work done to make both public health training and work more sustainable.
This report identifies three aspects of public health training where environmental sustainability could be incorporated in the short term:
travel, events and culture of training. Case studies are presented of actions being taken to understand and improve these. In the long-term it is likely that structures and processes of training will need to be redesigned to become sustainable and resilient.
Four areas of public health work are presented to illustrate how public health registrars are influencing a move to a more sustainable society:
• Local public health projects
• Teaching
• Research
• Specialist public health placements and projects
Many of the case studies relate to work public health registrars have led locally to increase environmental sustainability across a range of NHS organisations. This reflects the contexts within which most registrars have been working to date.
The work presented in this report is only a beginning. Collecting these case studies together has been done, not to look back, but to look forward and inspire future action.
Climate change is a key public health challenge of the 21st century. To address this we need to move to a more sustainable way of living and working. This report presents what public health registrars in the UK have been doing to accelerate this shift. With a foreword by President Elect Professor John Ashton, it offers examples of work done to make both public health training and work more sustainable.
A case study about the Sustainable Healthcare GP Registrar Scholarship Programme, run by the Severn Deanery School of Primary Care (SoPC), NHS Education – South West. The purpose of the programme is to offer high performing GPST3 trainees the opportunity to develop skills in sustainable healthcare within the context of the NHS. Such skills will help equip them for future appointments within clinical commissioning groups and the NHS as a whole.
Trainees on the programme have 20 days of study leave over 13 months, during which to learn about sustainable healthcare and to design and complete a relevant project, with educational support from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and others.
The case study can be downloaded here as a word document or may be found in web format at http://map.greenerhealthcare.org/severn-deanery/sustainable-healthcare-g...
The 2012 Awards were open to all kidney units or providers of kidney care in the UK, who were invited to enter one or more local initiatives demonstrating a measurable benefit to the environmental sustainability of kidney care.
Each shortlisted entry was turned into a poster and exhibited at the Green Nephrology Summit 2012. They will also be included in the Green Nephrology case library.
Read about the winning entry here.
This new 20-hour module, taught by Stefi Barna, Rob Coleman and Faye Jackson, will introduce three main aspects of the question, ‘what does a doctor need to know about the links between human health and the natural environment?’
Part I covers environmental impact, part II covers the relationship between nature and human health, and part III covers the effects of climate change on healthcare.
There will also be two field-based sessions. For further information, please download the linked document.
Two final year medical students in Oxford took part in a two-week special study module (SSM) on “Sustainable Healthcare” in 2011-12. The students each chose to focus on one of the four dimensions of sustainable healthcare identified by the Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) Network, and undertook a related project.
You can download this case study as a PDF file via the link below. You can also access it online in the Mapping Greener Healthcare database: http://map.greenerhealthcare.org/university-oxford/special-study-module-sustainable-healthcare
The Oxford University Hospitals Trust has reduced the amount of waste going to landfill or incineration by introducing recycling into the operating theatre setting. Previously all waste from clinical areas was disposed of via orange clinical waste bags. There are now recycling bins in every anaesthetic room of the three largest operating suites, as well as in recovery and staff rest areas. Waste segregation has become routine for many members of staff and approximately 22% of theatre waste is now recycled.
This case study was prepared with the help of medical student, Felicity Hughes. You can download it as a PDF file via the link below. You can also access the case study online in the Mapping Greener Healthcare database: http://map.greenerhealthcare.org/oxford-radcliffe-hospitals-nhs-trust/introducing-recycling-operating-theatres
Posters presented at a Green Nephrology private reception alongside the BRS/RA meeting in 2010. The reception was co-hosted by National Clinical Director for Kidney Care, Dr Donal O’Donoghue, and the Director of NHS Kidney Care, Beverley Matthews.
You can read more about the event in this blog.
