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Sustainable Respiratory Medicine - Centre for Sustainable Healthcare project

Mon, 26/09/2011

What will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS?  The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) is starting an exciting project, funded by GlaxoSmithKline, to improve the environmental sustainability of respiratory medicine, focusing in particular on COPD. This programme has arisen from the Sustainable Specialties Programme developed by CSH and supported by other key national bodies such as the NHS Sustainable Development Unit. The Sustainable Specialties Programme began in 2009 with Green Nephrology and has since received wide acclaim in national conferences and key documents for change such as the Marmot Review. 

Recycling

One in every 100 tonnes of domestic waste generated in the UK comes from the NHS, with the vast majority going to landfill. NHS organisations should aspire to at least match the targets set for the Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate (SOGE) targets in managing the different waste streams – this includes all departments increasing their recycling figures to 40% of their waste arisings by 2010 and to 75% of their waste arisings by 2020.

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