Wow! Only 1% of piped Nitrous Oxide is used for patients. Wales has stopped piped supply. #Sustainability in #surgery. Too much single-use kit. Often could make better choices (including whether an operation is necessary and good patient prep). #OperatingTheatesConf

Where entonox use is suspended temporarily there will be alternatives provided according to local expertise and availability. Women should ask their midwives or hospital contact about what is available and look on labour pains,com for information LabourPains.org

Well done to Kenneth and GAS members for their work to reduce and now replace desflurane in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! #DitchTheDes #GreenAnaesthesia 🌿 bbc.co.uk/news/health-64…

Scotland becomes the first nation in the world to prohibit the use of desflurane. Desflurane has a Global Warming Potential 2500x greater than CO2. bbc.co.uk/news/health-64…

"I realised in 2017 that the amount of desflurane we used in a typical day's work as an anaesthetist resulted in emissions equivalent to me driving 670 miles that day" - Dr Kenneth Barker, Chair of the Association’s Environment and Sustainability Committee👇

Our VP Dr Helgi on the decommissioning of desflurane: "More and more anaesthetists across the UK have become aware of the sheer extent of the damage the gas can cause to the environment and have chosen to stop using it - and I am proud of that." bbc.co.uk/news/health-64…

Delighted about Scotland banning #desflurane. NHS England also committed to decommission by 2024 but why wait? Let’s just get on with it and #ditchthedes today ✅. Proud of St George's anaesthetic department 🌈 for taking the leap in 2022. Now to focus on our other big hitters: HVAC and nitrous oxide

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Just added 🚨 Quintana-Gallardo et al. study #hospital #gowns in Spain 🇪🇸, finding non-sterile gowns to have the lower environmental impacts per use, but the largest overall impact due to their high consumption within the case study hospital. Find it: healthcarelca.com/database

Ola Løkken Nordrum Rhea 💚🌍🏨🌱♻️ Centre for Sustainable Healthcare HCWH Europe GHASP Alexis Percival Have a look at the life cycle carbon database. You can search on there by product healthcarelca.com

🔓Reducing staff exposure and the environmental impact of nitrous oxide: a win-win. "We consider this to be a strong argument in favour of investment that will serve the dual purpose of reducing environmental impact and reducing occupational exposure to healthcare workers."

See our Centre for Sustainable Healthcare forum for a summary of this weeks #GreenED resources on Reducing N2O networks.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/topics/week-2-… RColl Greener NHS @morganpete Sandy Robertson Ian Higginson 🌈 RCEMLearning Gordon Miles PharmacyDeclares! Alifia Chakera GHASP Saint Emlyn's UK Health Alliance on Climate Change @EuropSocEM

With @KingstonHospNHS today presenting their board, the London #ODP advocacy effort continues, enhancing the ODP profession's identity, visibility, and morale across London @LondonAHPs Bill Kilvington 💙 FCODP, FRCA College Of Operating Department Practitioners Laura Leadsford Helen Lowes Guy's and St Thomas'

🔓Green nudges for sustainable anaesthetic practice: institutional support to make individual change easier. This great new editorial features in the August issue and is now #FreeForAWeek! @joshp_j @PaulAshYoung Nathan Hodson @DrCliffShelton 🔗…-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

An excellent article on saying no. It's both healthy and necessary. We should recognise that yes/no is a spectrum, and the best no leaves the asker feeling like they got a yes. Three techniques for saying no effectively: 1) The "yes no": where we say yes to the need, but no to

This is a hugely important area and work that we must prioritise throughout @StGeorgesTrust St. George's Infection Prevention and Control Team

Health is adversely impacted by climate & ecological crises. Urgent action from the GOV.UK is needed for better planetary health. JUST LAUNCHED UK Health Alliance on Climate Change policy report on biodiversity, climate change & health > ukhealthalliance.org/influencing-po… #UKHACCBiodiversity

Huge thanks to the whole team at @StGeorgesTrust for making this happen - Hand Hub wins the #sustainability award at National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) #NOACONF23 . Well done to Sarah Abbott et al ! 🌏Emma Evans ♻️ .

Nish Kumar Dr Friederike Otto It's the latest in the series, following the stonking contributions of Jonathan Pie and Kiri Pr'chard-McLean which you can see below if you missed them. With more in the pipeline! climatesciencebreakthrough.com/projects

We can start culture change at any level in an organisation. However, when senior leaders show the way, and role model positive behaviour, more change is likely to happen, more quickly. The Arbinger Institute has just released a new (free) guide: "The leadership gold standard: A