Greening the NHS 1: tackling the climate crisis and aiming for net zero - Nursing Times
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Greening the NHS 1: tackling the climate crisis and aiming for net zero
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How sustainable care models and quality improvement initiatives, along with options for more sustainable ways to live, are ways of taking action in the face of a climate emergency
Abstract
Climate change poses a great risk to public health, with predicted catastrophic effects. Avoidable deaths are already occurring and millions more are predicted, while healthcare is also responsible for around 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As nurses, we can play a vital role in tackling the problem, and we need to act now. But what can we do? This article is the first in a series looking at how nurses can take action to develop and promote more-sustainable care models.
Citation: Hayes A (2023) Greening the NHS 1: tackling the climate crisis and aiming for net zero. Nursing Times [online]: 119; 8.
Author: Angela Hayes is clinical nurse specialist in supportive and palliative care, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. She has led on clinical sustainability projects at the trust.
Abstract
Climate change poses a great risk to public health, with predicted catastrophic effects. Avoidable deaths are already occurring and millions more are predicted, while healthcare is also responsible for around 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As nurses, we can play a vital role in tackling the problem, and we need to act now. But what can we do? This article is the first in a series looking at how nurses can take action to develop and promote more-sustainable care models.
Citation: Hayes A (2023) Greening the NHS 1: tackling the climate crisis and aiming for net zero. Nursing Times [online]: 119; 8.
Author: Angela Hayes is clinical nurse specialist in supportive and palliative care, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. She has led on clinical sustainability projects at the trust.
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