#25 JournalChat // What is the Cost of Healthcare on our Environment? With Ms Chantelle Rizan JournalSpotting

Want to know how to be more green at work, but you can only sigh as you plop your 1 millionth item of pristine plastic PPE from that morning into the bin?
Your ears are in the right place.

Today we interview Ms Chantelle Rizan; mountain biker, ENT fellow and environment warrior... She has published numerous articles on the topic of what healthcare does to our environment and, crucially, what we can do to improve it.

Timeline:
0200    Introducing Chantelle Rizan
0630   The situation with our environment
1130   Contribution of the NHS on the situation
1535   Impact of COVID pandemic on this
2130   The issues with surgery / theatres
2800   The role of waste disposal and recycling
3140   What is needed from organisation / government point of view?
3420  What can individual doctor do?
3910  Planetary Health edition of the Bulletin - thoughts and conclusions
4130  Take home points

Articles discussed:
Plastics in healthcare: time for a re-evaluationThe carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital
The Carbon Footprint of Surgical Operations
Using surgical sustainability principles to improve planetary health and optimise surgical services following the COVID-19 pandemic




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