🎉 Congratulations to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital NorthumbriaNHS on becoming one of the first Emergency Departments in the country to get a Bronze and Silver GreenED accreditation! 👏 Well done to the GreenED team! 🔗 Full story: rcem.ac.uk/first-uk-eds-g…

Proud to receive 🥉& 🥈accreditation. The results of hard work of our Eco ED team. 💚

How to Build a Sustainable ED at #RCEMasc Dr. James Walton from Northumbria Healthcare and Dr. Sandy Robertson from NHS Fife share their journey. Don’t miss the chance to see these initiatives in action again at our Green ED Study Day: bit.ly/3Tqj50w

Great piece on the GreenED project and our efforts NorthumbriaNHS

#RCEMFestiveFavourites GreenED is an RCEM initiative to measure & reduce ED environmental impacts. In 2024, five UK sites were accredited, see what some of their reps had to say in today's video: youtube.com/shorts/yiZUseL… GreenED reg reopens in Spring 2025:

Our next speaker this afternoon Dr George Narayanan Menon highlighting the importance of sustainability in healthcare and working towards a GreenED #EMTA2025 EMTA Royal College of Emergency Medicine RCEM Events Ashna Agarwal

Do you have unwanted crutches or walking sticks in your home? You can now return them to the main reception at the Northumbria Hospital. We'll then refurbish them to ensure they are safe for another patient to use in their recovery. Find out more - orlo.uk/6tRzs

#GlobalRecyclingDay A great infographic from GreenED. A 'never too busy to recycle' approach at Cardiff's Major Trauma Centre led to financial savings. Register your interest in GreenED: greened.rcem.ac.uk

As part of our sustainability efforts, crutches and walking sticks can now be returned to the reception at the Northumbria Hospital in Cramlington. Simply drop them of at the allocated collection point. Learn more - orlo.uk/9WAHw

Vividly remember the parade in 1993, aged 7, going with my Grandad. Today I get to take my 7 year old son to an NUFC parade with his Granda.

I’m fundraising for Motor Neurone Disease Association by running the Leeds marathon. Check out my JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving justgiving.com/page/james-wal…

We're thrilled to announce that we've been accredited gold by Royal College of Emergency Medicine GreenED programme 🥇 The team at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital have carried out exceptional work to achieve this and contribute towards our net zero 2040 target 👏

Just reposting this as a reminder of what our emergency departments are likely to see in this hot weather. Stay cool everyone! ☀️ Helen Wilkins GreenED Marie Fogarty

Proud to be the first department in the country to achieve Gold accreditation.

Our emergency department is the first in the north east to introduce using reusable suture kits for patients requiring stitches. Single-use kits get thrown away after being used so making the switch to reusable kits has environmental and financial benefits. Learn more 👇