Library

Reports

Delivering a net zero NHS (2022)

BMJ six steps to both greener and better primary care

Health Care Without Harm: Health Care’s Climate Footprint

How the health sector contributes to the global climate crisis and opportunities for action

Lancet: Managing the health effects of climate change

Research

• The sustainable physician

• Sustainability in quality improvement: redefining value

• Sustainability in quality improvement: measuring impact

• The Carbon Footprint of Surgical Operations: A Systematic Review.

• Plastics in healthcare: time for a re-evaluation

• Using surgical sustainability principles to improve planetary health and optimise surgical services following the COVID-19 pandemic. 

• The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change

• What impact is dentistry having on the environment and how can dentistry lead the way? 

Surgery

Royal College of Surgeons

• RCS Sustainability in Surgery Strategy
• RCS Webinar: Importance of Sustainability in the Surgical Profession 2020
• RCS Guidance: Sustainability in the operating theatre

Medicine

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

• Facing the future: Sustainability for Medical Royal Colleges

Royal Society for Medicine

• Climate change series landing page
• YouTube channel

Royal College of Emergency Medicine

• RCEM GreenED Framework
• RCEM GreenED resources
• RCEM Declares a climate emergency

Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health

• FSRH Climate statement 2022

Psychiatry

Royal College of Psychiatrists

• RCPsych Position Statement
• RCPsych Climate and Ecological Emergency Declaration
• RCPsych Wales Sustainability, Climate Change and Mental Health Conference 2021

Paediatrics

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

• RCPCH Climate change landing page
• RCPCH The impact of climate change on global child health – position statement
• RCPCH Working Group

Pathology

Royal College of Pathologists

• RCPath Strategy for a sustainable future document
• RCPath Pathology and the environment webinar 2021

Anaesthetics

Royal College of Anaesthetists

• RCoA Sustainability Strategy 2019-2022
• RCoA and Association of Anaesthetists Joint Environmental Policy Statement
• RCoA Anaesthesia and the environment webinar
• RCoA Your anaesthetic and the environment: patient information

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

• RCOG joint statement with RCPCH and UKHACC

Radiology

Royal College of Radiologist

• RCR Statement on commitment to tackling climate change
• RCR Environmental policy

Public Health

Faculty of Public Health

• FPH position statement and recommendations
• FPH Climate and Health Strategy 2021-25
• FPH Declares a climate emergency

General Practice

Royal College of General Practitioners

• RCGP and the climate emergency landing page
• RCGP Green Impact for Health toolkit

Opthalmology

Royal College of Opthalmologists

• RCOphth Sustainability in Ophthalmology landing page
• RCOphth Sustainability in Ophthalmology services guide

Health Education England North East Faculty of Sustainable Healthcare

• • Our own Faculty of Sustainable Healthcare website

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

• • Comprehensive website from CSH who offer strategic input and consultancy on sustainable healthcare research and practice

Greener NHS

• • NHS England website with the national ambition and progress, resources, and case studies

Sustainable healthcare coalition

• • Healthcare sector led group that looks for the greatest opportunities to inspire sustainable practices in healthcare through the collaboration of its members

Health Care Without Harm

• • Leading the global movement for environmentally responsible healthcare

Greener Practice

• • The UK’s primary care sustainability network

UK Health Alliance on Climate Change 

• • An alliance of health organisations and almost 1 million health professional members

Health Declares

• • Health Declares Climate and Ecological Emergency is a grassroots, voluntary group of health professionals and organisations from across the UK. They recognise that the climate crises is also a health crisis.

World Health Organisation Climate Change and Health

Includes a framework for building climate-resilient health systems

Podcasts

Video Resources

Twitter

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare: @SusHealthcare

HEE NE: @MADEinHEENE

Dr Elaine Winkley: @ElaineW14626897

Dr Cathy Lawson: @dr_cathy_lawson

The Lancet Planetary Health: @TheLancetPlanet

Greener NHS: @GreenerNHS

Dr Nick Watts: @DrNickWatts

Eco medics: @eco_medics

Greener Anaesthesia and Sustainability Project: @GASPAnaesthesia

Doctors for climate: @docsforclimate

RCEM GreenED: @GreenED_uk

Newcastle University Sustainable Medics: @NUsusmedics

Instagram

Eco medics: @eco_medics

COP26: @cop26uk

Climate reality: @climatereality

Greenpeace: @greenpeaceuk

NASA climate change: @nasaclimatechange

UN climate change: @unclimatechange

UN environment programme: @unep

Newcastle University Sustainable Medicine: @sustainablemedics