#NewProfilePic #urologydeclares - this felt like the natural profile picture for this movement! Evidence-based thread on the burden of kidney stone disease and climate change coming soon… #UroSoMe

6. Very detailed metabolic evaluation is an option for some recurrent calcium stone formers, BUT for the vast majority, the evidence supports empirical treatment, namely -More water 💧 -less salt 🧂 -less animal protein 🐮 -more fruit and veg🥕🍎

Climate change is making tropical diseases everybody’s problem. japantimes.co.jp/author/int-lar…

A good initiative? This paper strips the carbon footprint purely to device components and can potentially misrepresent all the other effects on the carbon footprint including operative time, complications, type of anaesthesia, place of manufacture & distribution #urologydeclares

I stumbled across this Sustainability Leadership for Greener Health & Care programme from NHS Leadership Academy 💙 …ership.apply.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk It looks FANTASTIC & is FREE for health & care staff! I've applied. Take a look!

Intercollegiate Green Surgery Checklist wins ASGBI sustainabilty prize! The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Professor Rowan Parks Prof Rowan Parks Prof Michael Griffin Jasmine Winter Beatty RCSEd Policy and Public Affairs Surgeons' News - RCSEd

Fantastic to see this in Emergency Medicine 👍

‘Potential Carbon Savings with Day-case Compared to Inpatient Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumour Surgery in England’ sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #urologydeclares

Great to see the passion and expertise from Dr Maria van Hove and Prof Bhutta at #BAUS23 on not how we can, but how we MUST change our practice and scrutinise how we work and where our products come from Greener NHS

The MultICath and COMPaRE trials are two larger scale trials happening now in the UK and the Netherlands respectively looking at single vs reusable intermittent catheters. Hopefully one way we can reduce single use plastics in urology #sustainabilityinsurgery

My new favourite climate graphic From Jane Morton Jane Morton's excellent free booklet 'Don't Mention the Emergency?'

Thanks to European Urology jim catto Alberto Briganti for publishing this perspective. Our food choices directly impact our well-being and the environment. Let's build momentum in urology to promote a greener future and better health outcomes! 🌱🌍 #PlanetaryHealth

Due to concerns about the impact of climate change and nature loss on human health, we are joining UK Health Alliance on Climate Change in signing a letter to the PM urging him to withdraw the decision to issue new licences for North Sea oil and gas. Read the full letter👇 ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/heal…