RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Reducing the carbon footprint of hospital-based care
JF Future Hospital Journal
JO Future Hosp J
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 57
OP 62
DO 10.7861/futurehosp.15.016
VO 2
IS 1
A1 Charlie Tomson
YR 2015
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/1/57.abstract
AB Climate change, driven by man-made greenhouse gas emissions, is a major threat to the health of this and future generations. Hospital-based healthcare generates large quantities of greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare requires direct action to reduce waste and energy use, but also requires radical reform of care pathways so that the only patients who come to or stay in hospital are people whose healthcare cannot safely be delivered closer to home. Achieving these reforms without major structural changes to the financial flows in the NHS will be extraordinarily difficult.