Teams across the UK are coming up with innovative ways to combat the climate emergency, finds Matthew Limb
The NHS has a “moral obligation” to reduce the harmful effects on health from its activities, says James Dixon, head of sustainability for Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
He proposed that the trust should agree to publicly declare a “climate emergency” and fast track a reduction in carbon emissions.
The trust became “the first healthcare organisation in the world” to declare a climate emergency in June 2019 and has driven a range of local, regional, and national initiatives. A number of city-wide action groups have been formed and a climate action group established across the region’s integrated care system, led by the trust’s chief executive, Dame Jackie Daniel.
“Nationally, we have established a Shelford Group of sustainability leads, and Dame Jackie is a member of the NHS Net Zero expert panel established to develop the NHS Net Zero plan,” says Dixon.
The trust also formed an executive oversight group for climate emergency action and embedded climate emergency and carbon reduction into the trust’s strategy for 2019-24.
There has been an 11% reduction in direct carbon emissions over the course of a year and a 40% reduction in the environmental impact of volatile anaesthetic gases.
Dixon says, “The climate emergency is a health emergency. In publicly declaring this we have been honest about the scale of the challenge and have gained top-level support for delivering on this as a priority.”
Surgery has a bad reputation when it comes to wasting resources, with minimal recycling and high energy use in operating theatres.
Research in Cardiff has highlighted for the first …

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2020年BMJ奖：环境可持续发展和气候行动

泰恩医院纽卡斯尔可持续发展负责人詹姆斯·迪克森说，英国全国各地的研究小组正在想出应对气候变化紧急情况的创新方法。NHS
负有“道德义务”，以减少其活动对健康的有害影响。 NHS基金会信托。
他建议该信托基金应同意公开宣布“气候紧急情况”，并迅速减少碳排放量。
该信托基金成为“世界上第一家宣布在2019年6月发生气候紧急情况的医疗机构”，并推动了一系列地方，区域和国家计划。在该信托基金首席执行官杰米·丹尼尔（Dame Jackie Daniel）的领导下，已经组建了多个城市行动小组，并在该地区的综合护理系统中建立了气候行动小组。
“在全国范围内，我们已经建立了谢尔福德可持续发展领导小组，而杰姬夫人是为制定NHS净零排放计划而成立的NHS净零排放专家小组的成员，” Dixon说。
该信托基金还成立了一个执行监督小组，负责气候应急行动，并将气候应急和减少碳排放纳入信托基金的2019-24年战略中。
一年中直接碳排放量减少了11％，挥发性麻醉气体对环境的影响减少了40％。
迪克森说：“气候紧急情况是健康紧急情况。在公开宣布这一点时，我们对挑战的规模是诚实的，并已获得最高级别的支持，将其作为优先事项来实现。”
外科手术在浪费资源方面口碑不好，手术室的回收利用最少，能耗高。
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