Library newsletters
Libraries and sustainability
Frimley Health Library & Knowledge Services are proud to have signed the Green Libraries Manifesto. We are committed to embedding sustainability in decision-making around resources and facilities and promoting carbon literacy.
Our plans for the future include:
- Making sustainability a key objective in the library strategy
- Promoting e-Learning for Health's Carbon Literacy for Healthcare programme
- Continuing to reduce paper by using online forms such as library registrations and book / article requests
- Using reusable marketing materials to cut down on waste paper
- Increasing our range of online resources such as eBooks and eJournals
- Reducing our use of plastic e.g. stopping the use of plastic library cards
- Saving energy through motion sensor lighting and shutting down PCs when not in use
- Recycling our withdrawn books, either through books sales, donating to other countries, or using Book Rescuing services
For links to more information and resources, please check our Green Libraries padlet.
Sustainability in Health Care - Monthly updates
Evidence Update – March 2025
A summary of recent reports, case studies, journal articles, and events.
News
Decarbonising the health and social care system – NIHR’s £25m funding call to decarbonise health & social care is open until 26th March 2025.
Greener NHS Bulletin – The latest news and case studies compiled by NHS England
South East Greener NHS monthly newsletter
National Nursing and Midwifery Sustainability Network – Join the network’s FutureNHS page to find out more about upcoming events and get involved.
Reports/Guides
Green Plan Guidance – updated guidance to help NHS organisations develop their green plans
NHS England, 2025
New White Paper on tackling single-use plastics in healthcare
Bupa / Health Care Without Harm, Feb 2025
Climate change and health: embedding ethics into policy and decision making
Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Jan 2025
About the Clinical Waste Segregation – A guide for nursing staff in the safe management of healthcare waste programme – an animated guide to support front line nursing staff
NHS England, 2025
Open Access eBook - Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-Being
Journal Articles
A systematic review of sustainability practices in plastic surgery
Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, Mar 2025, 102:104-113.
The public health co-benefits of strategies consistent with net-zero emissions: a systematic review
The Lancet Planetary Health, 2025; 9(2):E145-E156.
Environmental footprint and material composition comparison of single-use and reusable duodenoscopes
Endoscopy, 57(2):116-123.
Evaluating the carbon footprint of sedation practices in intensive care
Nursing in Critical Care, 30(1):19-26.
Urology on a changing planet: links between climate change and urological disease
Nature Reviews Urology, 28 Jan 2025.
Addressing healthcare professionals’ fatigue for effective climate action engagement
Journal of Climate Change and Health, 21, Jan-Feb 2025, 100366.
A nationwide approach to reduction in anaesthetic gas use: the Dutch Approach to decarbonising anaesthesia
British Journal of Anaesthesia, 30 Jan 2025.
Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance recommendations toward environmentally sustainable cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 26 Jan 2025, 101840.
Eco-anxiety, climate change and the ‘bottom billion’: a plea for better understanding
BMJ Mental Health, 15 Jan 2025.
How Can the Environmental Impact of Orthopaedic Surgery Be Measured and Reduced? Using Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction as a Test Case
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 483(1):7-19.
Events / CPD
Green Plan guidance drop in sessions:
Friday 7 March, 9.30am-10.30am – Estates, travel & transport, adaptation, and food
Tuesday 11 March, 2pm-3pm – Tracking and reporting progress
Friday 21 March, 2pm-3.30pm – Medicines, net zero clinical transformation, digital transformation, supply chain & procurement, and workforce
The Healthcare Chefs’ Knowledge 2 – Eating the Rainbow
Upcoming webinars in March on promoting healthier menus and minimising food waste.
Inventory Management Programme and Sustainability Benefits Webinar – Provided by NHS Supply Chain, 13 March, 12pm-12.30pm.
Small Steps to Sustainability – Monthly webinars from the South East Greener NHS team.
Centre for Sustainable Healthcare courses
Various courses designed for health professionals, educators, sustainability and estates managers
Carbon literacy for healthcare
Online programme via the NHS Learning Hub
Tools / Resources
Sustainability e-books
27 e-books on sustainability provided by NHS England. NHS OpenAthens account required.
Nursing for the Planet
An online resource from the Nursing Network at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
RCEM GreenED initiative
An initiative from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine to measure and reduce the environmental impact of Emergency Departments.
Letters to the Earth
Creative activities, programmes and workshops.
For help accessing full-text articles, or to request an in-depth search, please contact fhft.
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Sustainability eBooks
27 e-books on the subject of sustainability are available with an NHS OpenAthens password via the Knowledge and Library Hub.
Examples include:
- 50 Ways to Help the Planet: Easy ways to live a sustainable life Berry S., Hachette, 2018, 9780857836304
- An Introduction to Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives Mulligan M., 2nd ed., Taylor and Francis, 2017, 9781315519432
- Sustainability for healthcare management: A Leadership Imperative Rich C., Singleton J. and Wadhwa S., 2nd ed., Taylor and Francis, 2018, 9781351997676
View the full list of titles.
Did you know..?
Using the library to borrow books is sustainability in action! From 2021-23, the number of loans for our top 50 most popular books saved the equivalent of 208 book purchases. That's the equivalent of saving 3 trees...
