The Sustainable Respiratory Network brings together patients, healthcare professionals and others to share ideas for sustainable respiratory care. To join in discussion and receive emails, please register via the link on the right of this page.
“We have an opportunity to develop a paradigm of care for the 21st century, one which is better for patients and better for the environment. Healthcare has a responsibility not to follow but to lead on carbon reduction; respiratory medicine should be at the forefront.”
Dr Robert Winter OBE, National Clinical Director for Respiratory Disease, 23 March 2012
Donating Made Easy
News Article Ingeborg 03/05/2012 - 2:45pm
Some of you have asked whether you can donate money to help our work. We have always accepted cheques, but The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) has now signed up to Just Giving to make it easier for you to donate small amounts on a regular basis.
CSH is a very small charity, and funding for our core costs is entirely provided by donations and project-focused support. You can help us work to safeguard the future of health and healthcare by contributing to our funding. Please take 5 minutes to donate - any amount will help! Thank you.
Respiratory Medicine: High Quality, Low Carbon
Blog Article toby_hillman 17/04/2012 - 10:05pm
On the 23rd of March I was lucky to be among a group of respiratory professionals, representatives from primary care, nursing, academic and the pharmaceutical industry as we came together to discuss how Respiratory medicine contributes, and can help to reduce the carbon footprint of the NHS.
Value and Carbon in Respiratory Care
Blog Article toby_hillman 13/03/2012 - 1:40pm
Value in healthcare is a recent concept which is being adopted by commissioners and healthcare leaders to focus on treatments which really make an impact to patients, whilst being delivered in an efficient way.
Costing healthcare is a complex area, and carbon costing is becoming more and more relevant. Read on to find out a little more about how the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is looking to help commissioners define value in respiratory care.
Innovative Inhaler Recycling Project Expanded
Blog Article Ingeborg 30/01/2012 - 3:07pm
In February 2011 GlaxoSmithKline and the Cooperative Pharmacy in partnership with TerraCycle UK launched the first respiratory inhaler recycling programme in Europe. Forty Cooperative pharmacies across South Wales and the South East of England were piloting the programme for an initial six months. While the pharmacies encouraged patients to drop off their inhalers at their branch, TerraCycle UK recycled every element of the inhaler. After proving a huge success, the project was extended to 200 Cooperative pharmacies from November 2011.
90% Less: why greener healthcare is leaner healthcare
Blog Article Ingeborg 25/01/2012 - 2:22pmOur conference organized in partnership with The Thames Valley Health Innovation and Education Cluster is taking place on 24th February 2012. The day offers a great opportunity to find out about the most recent developments in sustainable healthcare including a launch of the emergent research agenda from The King's Fund. Experts will outline the major issues before looking in depth at some of the available solutions including how to cut medicines waste, benefits of greenspace, patient and staff engagement and active transport.
Welcome to the Sustainable Respiratory Care Network!
Blog Article Rachel 11/01/2012 - 12:55pm
We are starting an exciting project, funded for a year by GSK, to improve the environmental sustainability of respiratory medicine, focusing in particular on COPD.
