Have you ever thought about how much paper we dispose of on a daily basis whilst at work? No, well you should. The other day I was putting a patient on dialysis, a simple cannulation procedure.

No matter how much we hear about the health threats of global warming and the benefits of low carbon lifestyles, there are times as we go about our daily lives when we can still feel powerless to make a meaningful difference. And it’s at just those times, when we don’t feel we’re making a difference, that we might find ourselves wondering why we’re bothering at all.

Between March 31st 2008 and April 1st 2009, the renal team in a DGH not too far from me requested that their patients attend the hospital's radiology department as outpatients on 534 occasions (although sometimes, of course, the patients had more than one test done on the same day).

Prion risk: where do we draw the line? Millions of nail clippers are incinerated every year across the NHS, as a result of policies to manage the theoretical risk of vCJD, according to an article by Julie Hotchkiss, public health consultant in Wigan.(1)

Hi Everyone Just a few updates on the Green OT project and some items of interest I hope!  And a picture of a beautiful spider web in my urban garden!