Library resource guides: Environmental sustainability resources: Networks & other resources

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Australian Medical Association
Croakey
Anaesthesia and environmental sustainability at ANZCA
Doctors for the Environment Australia
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals
Health Care Without Harm
OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council
TRA2SH

Networks

Australian Medical Association

Australian Medical Association (AMA)
The AMA believes that achieving environmental sustainability in health care is essential to improving the way Australia’s health system functions. Enhancing environmental sustainability, through reducing carbon emissions, curtailing waste and managing resources efficiently, will deliver better outcomes for patients, and provide broader social and economic benefits.

AMA position statements:

Croakey

Croakey Health Media
Croakey Health Media is a not-for-profit public interest journalism organisation providing a range of social journalism services and related activities that are important for the health and wellbeing of people, families, communities, societies and the environment. Croakey has an extensive collection of climate and environmental sustainability articles focusing on health.
National Health and Climate Strategy articles
Climate emergency articles

Doctors for the Environment Australia

Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA)
Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) is a national voluntary organisation of medical doctors and students. DEA members are from all specialities of medicine - GPs, surgeons, physicians, anaesthetists, psychiatrists, paediatricians, public health specialists, academics, medical students and researchers.

DEA members bring together an extraordinary level of leadership and expertise drawn from every branch of medicine.

Good health is inextricably linked to healthy, stable environments. DEA's mission is ‘to protect health through care of the environment’.
Sustainable Health Care (DEA resources page)

The ESAIC Sustainability Toolkit

The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care: The ESAIC Sustainability Toolkit
ESAIC's Sustainability Toolkit will be an invaluable aid in helping practitioners, departments and hospitals improve sustainable practice in surgery and anaesthesia. Drawing on expertise from across Europe and using lessons learned from successful quality improvement projects, the Sustainability Toolkit provides ideas and structures to ensure sustainable change is not only possible but maintained.

Global Green and Healthy Hospitals

Global Green and Healthy Hospitals
The Global Green and Healthy Hospitals community has over 1,350 members in 72 countries who represent the interests of more than 43,000 hospitals and health centres

Its members are using innovation, ingenuity and investment to transform the health sector and foster a healthy future for people and the planet.

GGHH is an initiative of Health Care Without Harm.

Global Green and Healthy Hospitals - guidance documents

Green Theatre Checklist version 2.0

Royal College of Anaesthetists: Green Theatre Checklist version 2.0
The RCoA is pleased to support version 2.0 of the Intercollegiate Green Theatre Checklist. The updated checklist offers a one-page resource for surgical teams to ensure they are taking all possible steps to reduce the environmental impact of operating theatres, while maintaining high clinical standards.

Green Theatres Network

Green Theatres Network
The Green Theatres Network was first established in Western Australia in 2018 to link the efforts of Green Theatre Groups and enthusiasts across the state. It is a multidisciplinary group which coordinates collaboration statewide across public and private institutions. There is now a GTN in South Australia and on the west coast. Most of the content here is Australia centric but hopefully mostly applicable globally.

Healthcare Without Harm

Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)
Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) is an international nongovernmental organisation (NGO) that works to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability, and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice.
Reclaiming health activism in the age of the climate crisis

OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate & Health Council

OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate & Health Council
OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council is a part of a worldwide movement of health professionals and health organisations urgently focusing on the health challenges of climate change and the health opportunities of climate action. The Council is a not-for-profit, politically non-partisan incorporated society.

OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council comprises health professionals in Aotearoa/New Zealand concerned with:
- The negative impacts of climate change on health.
- The health gains that are possible through strong, health-centred climate action
- Highlighting the impacts of climate change on those who already experience disadvantage or ill-health (equity impacts).
- Reducing the health sector's contribution to climate change.
Practical Tips for Health Professionals to Address Climate Change

TRA2SH

TRA2SH (Trainee-Led Research and Audit in Anaesthesia for Sustainability in Healthcare)
TRA2SH's mission is "to stimulate a positive culture change in sustainable practices in anaesthesia by promoting curiosity amongst trainees, encouraging reflection and problem-solving within departments, whilst upholding the highest standards of patient care."

TRA2SH's Trainees - or “Tra2shees” are ANZCA trainee volunteers who are passionate about sustainability in healthcare, and some may be completing their ANZCA Scholar role project through one of the TRA2SH audit projects. TRA2SH welcomes any new trainees to contact them and get involved.
TRA2SH Twitter
TRA2SH Resources

World Health Organization

World Health Organization (WHO): Climate Change and Health Toolkit
WHO has been working on climate change and health for over 25 years - advocating, collecting evidence and providing comprehensive support to countries in dealing with health effects of climate change.

E-Learning Modules

Modules

National Health Service (UK): Environmentally Sustainable Anaesthetic Practice
This module has been created to scientifically populate the 2020 RCoA curriculum learning outcomes pertaining to sustainable practice, efficient use of healthcare resources and the environmental impact of healthcare delivery. The series, although primarily targeting anaesthetists, has much content which is relevant and applicable to other healthcare professionals working both within and outside the operating theatre.

National Health Service (UK): Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare programme.
There are 3 sessions in the Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare programme, all presented through key concepts and case studies. Sessions 1 and 2 are suitable for all in the NHS healthcare workforce.

Webinars

Anaesthesia and environmental sustainability

Sustainability in anaesthesia with Dr Forbes McGain (ABCs of Anaesthesia)

Anaesthesia and environmental sustainability (ANZCA)
ANZCA’s Environmental and Sustainability Working Group (ESWG) is turning up the heat on hospital waste. Here, Dr Jessica Hegedus, an anaesthetist at Wollongong Hospital and an ESWG member, talks to Brisbane fellow Associate Professor Kerstin Wyssusek about how she encourages others to create gold out of hospital garbage.

Environmental Sustainability in Anaesthesia (ANZCA)
A panel of experts explore environmental sustainability issues in anaesthesia practice and discuss the opportunities for research and innovation, such as collaborating with non-medical researchers, and trainee-led solutions to sustainable practice.

Environmental Sustainability at SMHS

Environmental Sustainability at SMHS

TRA2SHCon21

The recording of TRA2SHCon21 from 13 November 2021. Duration: 4 hrs 7 mins

TRA2SHCon21
The recording of TRA2SHCon21 from 13 November 2021. Duration: 4 hrs 7 mins

ESN Balancing sustainability and infection control

ESN Balancing sustainability and infection control webinar
This webinar explored how hospitals have worked within Infection Prevention and Management principles to implement system-wide sustainability frameworks and broke down some of the myths and realities around infection prevention and greener perioperative care.

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The webinar was co-chaired by Dr Archana Shrivathsa and Dr Mary O'Shea and features Infectious Diseases and Microbiology consultant Dr David New, anaesthetist Dr Justin Hii and Queensland Children’s Hospital Environmental Sustainability consultant Renae McBrien

“N20 or Not?” Ways to mitigate the environmental impact of N20

"N20 or NOT?" Ways to mitigate the environmental impact of N20
This session aired live on Tuesday 15 March 6.30pm - 8.00pm AEDT

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The Environmental Sustainability Network's (ESN) is pleased to present its first first webinar: "N20 or Not? Ways to mitigate the environmental impact of N20". The session includes thought-provoking presentations by international speaker and founder of the Nitrous Oxide Project, Alifia Chakera, and fellows and experts in the field Dr Matthew Jenks and Dr Rob Burrell. Some of the latest technology solutions for Nitrous Oxide in hospitals are also showcased. The 90-minute webinar concludes with a panel discussion. Dr Beth Hall and Dr Maggie Keys of the ESN executive co-chaired the event. Proudly sponsored by Mediquip.

The Pointy End: Greening Sharps and Drug Waste

The Pointy End: Greening Sharps and Drug Waste (ESN Webinar 2022)
Sharps and pharmaceutical waste disposal presents an ongoing challenge for environmental sustainability in healthcare. Navigating this space can be confusing for medical professionals due to varying regulations across regions and within hospital networks.

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The ANZCA Environmental Sustainability Network hosted a webinar covering green disposal of sharps and drugs waste with two keynote speakers who shared their research to shed light on these important issues; Dr Martin Minehan and Dr Taryn Naggs.

The session ended with a panel discussion including Dr Minehan, Dr Naggs and Dr Daniel Brooks Reid who is the principal investigator for TRA2SH’s (Trainee-led Research and Audit in Anaesthesia for Sustainability in Healthcare). The webinar will be co-chaired by ESN Executive members Dr Archana Shrivathsa and Dr Rajesh Pachchigar.

We thank Drug Waste International for their support of this webinar. Drug Waste International is focused on environmental sustainability, compliance and safety and prides itself on being a safety management company, not a waste management company. Drug Waste International provides a unique and timely answer for compliant drug disposal. For further information visit https://www.drugwaste.com.au/ or contact 1800 30 60 75.

The ESN recording from 22 November 2022 at 6:30pm. Duration: 81mins

Time to gown up

Time to gown up - sustainably (ANZCA Environmental Sustainability Network webinar)
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Single use surgical gowns are standard in most operating theatres - but what are their unseen environmental impacts? Reusing gowns and reducing their use may help to reduce healthcare waste and contributions to landfill - what's stopping us?

Hear from our multidisciplinary panel of local and international speakers Dr Marion Kainer, Associate Professor Forbes McGain, Dr Cliff Shelton and Dr Ben Dunne exploring surgical and infection control perspectives on introducing reusable surgical gowns, and reviewing the necessity of surgical gowns for anaesthetic procedures. The webinar was chaired by Dr Eugenie Kayak and Dr Archana Shrivathsa