AUSTRALIAN GROUPS
Doctors for the Environment Australia – The peak medical body for environmental sustainability. Membership open to all medical practitioners and supporters. Its sustainable healthcare page is instructive!
Trainee-Led Research and Audit in Anaesthesia for Sustainable Healthcare (TRA2SH) – – An Australian independent trainee-led group working on sustainability in theatres. #ditchthedes is a great campaign
Wiser Carbon Neutral – a group conducting research that will reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment in Australia and around the world
AUSTRALIAN HEALTH SERVICE SUSTAINABILITY EXAMPLES
Australian Health Infrastructure Sustainability Guidance (AusHFG), including EV infrastructure guidance for hospitals
South Metropolitan Health Service WA: Sustainability – SMHS has active front line staff, a sustainability officer and an executive who have delivered an Environmental Sustainability Framework.
GLOBAL GROUPS
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals – 43,000 health care facilities and hospitals aiming to transform health care to be more sustainable
ACADEMIC LITERATURE
The carbon footprint of Australian health care. Arunima Malik, Manfred Lenzen, Scott McAlister, Forbes McGain Lancet. Planetary Health 2018, 2 (1): e27-e35
Financial and environmental costs of reusable and single-use anaesthetic equipment. F McGain, D Story, T Lim, S McAlister. British Journal of Anaesthesia 2017 June 1, 118 (6): 862-869
SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE RESOURCES
Lifecycle Assessment of Healthcare Devices
MAKE YOUR HOME ‘GREEN’
Rewiring Australia – a blueprint for making Australia more sustainable, by electifying everything.
My Efficient Electrical Home – a facebook group for sharing tips and tricks for a more efficient, sustainable, electric home.
OTHER RELATED BODIES
Sustain Surf – A body warning of the impacts of climate change on our beaches and the surf life saving movement. http://sustain.surf