A collection of informative posters from NHS Greater Manchester Mental Health, featuring guidelines on various types of waste management. Each poster has a color-coded chart indicating what items are acceptable (“Yes please”) and what items should be avoided (“No thanks”). Categories include dry mixed recycling, food waste, offensive non-infectious healthcare waste, infectious healthcare waste, and paper and cardboard waste.

New NHS waste bin labels delivered for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust ♻️ 🏥

Need compliant bin signage for your site?
We can help ➡️ creative@nhscreative.org

#NHS #HealthcareWaste #SimplerRecycling #recycling #greenerNHS #htm0701 #nhsclinicalwastestrategy #NHScomms

🌿 Join us on 11/3 at 12.30pm for our webinar on making total hip replacement more environmentally sustainable.

We’ll share our new greener pathways guidance on decarbonising the THR pathway, plus insights & a case study on day‑case hip surgery.

Register here:👉 ow.ly/qS8W50YcLCv

#NHS #GreenerNHS

Green Plan 2.0 graphic illustrating a commitment to sustainability with a fresh, modern green design.

#GreenPlan produced for @porthosp.bsky.social and @iownhs.bsky.social 🌿

#GreenerNHS #NetZeroNHS #NHS

🌍Caring for patients means caring for our planet too.

Our #GreenPlan sets out how we’ll reduce our environmental impact while continuing to deliver world-class care.

📹Take a look at how we’re protecting both patients and the environment in our latest video 👇

#TeamKings #Sustainability #GreenerNHS

📗GIRFT has published its ELLA framework, as featured in BMJ EBM, to help accelerate the decarbonisation of clinical care pathways across the NHS.

Supporting safer, greener, high‑quality care.💚

Learn more👉https://ow.ly/luCo50Y4bul

#GreenerNHS #NetZeroNHS #SustainableHealthcare

🆕from GIRFT: A practical guide to decarbonising the hip replacement pathway, developed with #GreenerNHS
& national clinical partners.

It highlights 13 high‑impact actions trusts can take now to cut carbon while improving patient care.💚

📥Download ow.ly/iNWO50Y16YO

#NetZeroNHS #Orthopaedics #NHS

Multiple copies of Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult on a book trolley.

Multiple copies of Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang

I’m always so grateful to the marvellous team at #SomersetLibraries who source multiple copies of our #BookClub titles for me. It makes the books accessible for all and helps our #GreenerNHS goals 😊📚

🕰️How long should a flexible cystoscope last?

A new GIRFT study reveals factors that can extend their lifespan.

Improving scope longevity isn’t just good for patient care, it’s a key step toward NHS England’s net zero goals.

👉Discover the insights and read the study: ow.ly/6Jyn50XTUcT

#GreenerNHS

It's #GreenLibrariesWeek 🌿 Did you know we have a seed library? Take some seeds, grow at home, and help support local biodiversity. 🌻 #greenerNHS

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

"Amazon as a whole consumed 105bn gallons of water in total in 2021, as much as 958,000 US households, which would make for a city bigger than San Francisco, according to the memo"

#DataCentres
#WaterConsumption
#GreenerNHS

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A graphic titled "Green Plan 2.0," featuring eco-friendly initiatives and sustainability goals.

We’re delighted to have supported Isle of Wight NHS Trust
& Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust in the design of their Green Plan, which sets out an ambitious agenda to minimise the future impact of climate change over the next three years. Take a look: iow.nhs.uk/about-us/cli...
#GreenerNHS

💚 Together, the #GreenNursingChallenge teams saved £691,844 & 77,398 kgCO2e, equal to 3,096 trees or 284 return trips between London & Edinburgh. 🌍👏 #GreenerNHS #SusQI #NetZeroNHS

Emissions from inhalers and anaesthetic gases reduced by a third ‘Major progress has been made’ to reduce medicines’ emissions with total emissions from inhalers and anaesthetic gases falling by 33%.

Emissions from inhalers and anaesthetic gases reduced by a third

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#emissions #inhalers #GreenerNHS #NHS #CarbonFootprint #UKpharmacy #medsky

The NHS has cut direct carbon emissions by 14% in 5 years 👏
Progress is real, but big challenges remain. We share our take on the #GreenerNHS progress report, and what we should do next for a truly #SustainableHealthcare system.
🔗http://bit.ly/48yhjlx

Spent an evening at #WharfedaleHospital and parked under their magnificent solar car park array. They were one of the first #NHS Trusts get a solar array in their car park. Every NHS Trust needs this for a #GreenerNHS

💡Are you intrigued by our upcoming free courses for nurses and midwives? Join us for a taster and Q&A session to find out more before you book: bit.ly/3Jf4wK8
#SustainableHealthcare #GreenerNHS #GlobalNursing #FreeCPD #NursingLeadership #Midwives #ClimateAction @burdetttrust.bsky.social

Green spaces improve air quality and health.

Explore our Greener Respiratory Healthcare Pathway this #LoveParksWeek for ideas you can use to make your practice greener 💚 www.pcrs-uk.org/campaign/gre...

#GreenerNHS #CleanAir

🌱 The Sustainable Kidney Care Benchmarking tools are ready to use!

✅ Compare your impact
✅ Learn from others
✅ Help meet #NetZeroNHS goals
✅ View the first results!

🔗 Start by completing the benchmarking survey led by ‪@sushealthcare.bsky.social‬: skc.ukkidney.org/

#GreenerNHS

Lewisham is developing a structured ‘Trial Without Catheter’ process. Reducing unnecessary catheter use = fewer complications + lower emissions. 
#GreenNursingChallenge #UrologyCare #PreventativeCare #GreenerNHS 
More: https://bit.ly/44dt795

If you’re interested in switching to reusables locally, DM me.

We’re happy to share the data, pathway, and lessons. Let’s scale this together. ♻️

#GreenerNHS #SustainableHealthcare #DiabetesCare #ClimateHealth #PenSwitch #EPCA2025

"In some LMICs, however, syringe recycling has been shown to be safe and feasible"

So might many other types of med plastic

And the UK should be recycling its own waste NOT exporting it

#Recycle
#GreenerNHS
#NHS

@rcem.ac.uk @globalactionplan.bsky.social

#EmergencyMedicine #SustainableHealthcare #AirPollution #GreenerNHS #CleanAirSavesLives #RCEM #GreenEDInitiative

@rcem.ac.uk @globalactionplan.bsky.social

#EmergencyMedicine #SustainableHealthcare #AirPollution #GreenerNHS #CleanAirSavesLives #RCEM #GreenEDInitiative

@rcem.ac.uk @globalactionplan.bsky.social

#EmergencyMedicine #SustainableHealthcare #AirPollution #GreenerNHS #CleanAirSavesLives #RCEM #GreenEDInitiative

Today is Clean Air Day!

🚑In Emergency Medicine, we see the impact of dirty air firsthand:

@globalactionplan.bsky.social @rcem.ac.uk

#EmergencyMedicine #SustainableHealthcare #AirPollution #GreenerNHS #CleanAirSavesLives #RCEM #GreenEDInitiative

How can nurses lead on sustainability?
Find out on 29 May with Dr Amanda Young from @theqicn.bsky.social at our next Nursing & Midwifery SusNet event.
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#SusNet #NursingLeadership #GreenerNHS

Part, & the start, of ambient clinical environments that make use of several types of voice activated & clinical record display to assist & enable clinical decision-making & recording

What's needed? sustainable, renewable power & cooling mechanisms for the cloud-based services

#GreenerNHS

The #SusQI Showcase is almost here! 🌱 Join us tomorrow for inspiration to build a healthier, more sustainable future in healthcare. 
🔗 Have you reserved your FREE spot yet? It’s not too late—register NOW: https://www.susqi.org/susqi-showcase-2025  
#SusQI #QITwitter #QCommunity #GreenerNHS

Image from Lewis Pugh Foundation showing various species of penguins with coloured dots indication how endangered they are considered to be

🌍 It's World Penguin Day! 🐧

Whether you’re interested in learning about sustainability in healthcare or reducing your own carbon footprint, the library has a wealth of resources to help you get started on your journey

#WorldPenguinDay #Sustainability #GreenerNHS

Pictured right is Abraham Oke, Sustainable Resources Manager, with Mark Hollingsworth from the company that manufactured our collection bin.

Abraham Oke, Sustainable Resources Manager, placing walking aids into the collection bin.

♻️ Patients can now return crutches and metal walking sticks in the collection bin outside the Golden Jubilee Wing, King’s College Hospital.

The aids will be inspected, cleaned, and reused, helping #ReduceWaste and #CarbonEmissions while improving access for others.

➡️ bit.ly/3EigqRu

#GreenerNHS