Publications

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1. General publications
1. Carbon footprinting in health systems
2. Net zero healthcare
2. Publications by health topic​​
1. ​ Allied health
2. Anaesthetics
3. Emergency
4. Intensive care
5. Medical imaging
6. Mental heath
7. Nursing and midwifery
8. Pathology
9. Pharmacy
10. Primary care
11. Respiratory
12. Surgery

General publications

Carbon footprinting in health systems

• Environmental impacts of Australia's largest health system
  
• Health care's response to climate change: a carbon footprint assessment of the NHS in England
  
• The carbon footprint of Australian health care. Lancet Planet Health
  

Net zero heal​thcare

• A pathway to net zero emissions for healthcare​
  
• NHS Green Ward competition posters
• Mater No Risk? No Glove! campaign: focuses on reducing the inappropriate use of non-sterile nitrile gloves which can lead to cross contamination, and serves as a reminder that gloves are not a substitute for proper hand hygiene.​
  

Publications by health topic​​

Allied health

• NHS Greener Allied Health Professional hub 
  
• Greener NHS occupational therapy progress case study.
• Greener NHS Blog - Greener Allied Health Professions: Delivering high quality, low carbon care in the right place at the right time, with the right skills.
• The environmental impact of health care for musculoskeletal conditions: A scoping review
  
• Sustainability in physiotherapy and rehabilitation
  
• Mitigating the environmental impact of NSAIDs - physiotherapy as a contribution to one health and the SDGs
  
• The efficacy of telehealth-delivered speech and language intervention for primary school-age children: A systematic review​​

Anaesthetics

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Emergency

• Environmentally sustainable emergency medicine​​
  

Intensive care

• A beginners guide to Sustainability in the ICU toolkit​​
• Reducing inappropriate arterial blood gas testing in a level III intensive care unit: a before-and-after observational study​
• Environmental Sustainability in the intensive care unit: A toolkit to counter futility!​
• ​How much do we throw away in the intensive care unit? An observational point prevalence study of Australian and New Zealand ICUs​​​​
  

Medical imaging

• The carbon footprint of hospital diagnostic imaging in Australia​​​
• Climate Change and Radiology: Impetus for Change and a Toolkit for Action​​
  

Mental health

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Nursing and midwifery

•  Nursing’s pivotal role in global climate action​​

Pathology

• ​ The carbon footprint of pathology testing​​
  

Pharmacy

• Greener NHS pharmacy system progress case study​​
  
• Environmental sustainability and the carbon emissions of pharmaceuticals​​
  
• Interventions to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Medicines: A UK perspective​​
• Innovative program reduces pharmaceutical waste​​
  

Primary care​

• Six steps to both greener and better primary care
• Let’s get practical: how we can heal the planet and our patients
• Sydney North Health Network: Climate and Health
• RACGP Climate and Health waiting room posters
• Greener NHS Primary care system progress case study
• Greener NHS Community care system progress case study
• 10 Point Green Plan for GP Practices​
  

Respiratory

• How to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Inhaler Prescribing​​
• ​ Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem​​
• Effects of switching from a metered dose inhaler to a dry powder inhaler on climate emissions and asthma control: post-hoc analysis​​
  

Surgery

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