Returning to work on the renal unit after a career break, Mary Thomson was taken aback by the lack of facilitates for segregating waste - 2 different coloured bags - take your pick! She decided to survey colleagues, asking about their recycling practices at home and aiming to find out "what happens to us when we come through the double doors to work"?
Dr Andy Connor is the first ever Green Nephrology Fellow - working to improve the environmental sustainability of a clinical specialty. What drew him to apply for the post, and how has he found it working from an (almost) blank canvas?
Kidney patient, Andy Williamson, speaks to the Green Nephrology Summit 2010 about the growing realisation of his dependence on finite resources that are being used up with little thought. Meanwhile, the biggest wasted resource is the patient.
The NHS is about to undergo a period of radical reform, so what does that mean for the sustainability agenda? Stephen Kennett of 2degrees met up with Rachel Stancliffe, co-founder of the Campaign for Greener Healthcare, to find out.
