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"A MERSEYSIDE hospital is slashing its carbon footprint in a £3.6m project.
The Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit at Fazakerley Hospital is helping create a cleaner environment while saving taxpayers an estimated £500,000 a year in fuel costs."
"Wade Allison says misplaced health stigma has prevented the full benefits of nuclear energy being explored"
"A NEW state-of-the-art Merseyside health centre is set to be the greenest in the UK.
The £5.7m Bluebell Lane Primary Care Centre in Huyton is due to be completed this summer."
"TRANSPORT leaders pledged to increase bike trips by 10% by April, 2011, as part of a plan to make Liverpool a “cycling city”.
The commitment was made at Merseyside Transport Partnership’s (MTP) third annual conference, at FACT, in Wood Street, yesterday."
"HEALTH and transport chiefs pledged to make Liverpool a “cycling city”.
Liverpool Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Liverpool city council said they wanted to increase cycling levels in the city by 10% by April 2011.
They signed a formal agreement setting out their commitment to cycling, and invited others – such as businesses, universities, and cultural and sporting agencies – to join the alliance."
The public bodies doing best at reducing energy consumption aim to recycle each penny saved
Carbon neutral hospitals, greener transportation of goods and services and meat-free menus praised in World Health Organisation report
Doctors are neglecting their duty by staying silent on the issue of climate change and its implications for public health, a leading doctor warns.
Professor Sir Muir Gray, the screening pioneer and former chief knowledge officer of the NHS, writes in The Times today that climate change should be compared to cholera in terms of the need for a public health revolution.
A scheme to recycle thousands of tonnes of used disposable nappies into everything from tiles to bicycle helmets and, eventually, to extract methane from them to generate energy is about to start.
The first of five plants designed to reclaim the plastic and fibres used to make nappies and incontinence pads will open in Birmingham, with four others planned by 2014 for cities such as Manchester, Liverpool and London.
in list: The Times Health News 02/09
Depending on factors that Times readers should not have to contemplate, my two sons are churning through 15 or so disposable nappies a day. By the time they graduate to underpants, my girlfriend and I will have bought about 10,000.\n\nThe environmentalist case against disposable nappies is relatively compelling. When you're wearily stationed at the changing table, that argument - "they contribute to 2.6 per cent of British landfill, blah, 4.5 trees per child, blah-blah" - barely registers.
in list: The Telegraph Health News 02/09, The Times Health News 02/09
A £9 million care complex planned for Raffles in Carlisle will be built using grass-covered roofing and other sustainable construction techniques.
Project leaders and architects unveiled their designs to the public at a meeting yesterday of the Belle Vue Neighbourhood Forum.
in list: Carlisle News & Star 02/09
What better health present can you give yourself than looking after what you eat? Britain's leading nutritionist JANE CLARKE on how to eat your way to health.
Neither patients nor the environment need the NHS to keep on serving factory-farmed meat – or any meat at all
Patients will be encouraged to stay at home and consult their doctor by phone instead of travelling to GPs' surgeries under plans for a "greener" NHS.
The NHS Sustainable Development Unit is a small group of specialist doctors, managers and analysts who are charged with "greening" one of the largest and most complex organisations on earth.
Patients should phone their GP rather than drive in for a visit, according to National Health Service guidelines unveiled today.
Ministers want family doctors to hold more 'phone-in' surgeries to help the environment by cutting carbon emissions from cars.
Meat-free menus are to be promoted in hospitals as part of a strategy to cut global warming emissions across the National Health Service.
The plan to offer patients menus that would have no meat option is part of a strategy to be published tomorrow that will cover proposals ranging from more phone-in GP surgeries to closing outpatient departments and instead asking surgeons to visit people at their local doctor's surgery.
Meat could be taken off hospital menus as part of a drive to cut carbon emissions across the National Health Service.
The plan to offer patients meat-free menus is part of a strategy to be announced tomorrow.
A report published last year showed the NHS’s carbon dioxide emissions in 2004 were 18.6 million tonnes and rising — more than three per cent of all emissions in England.
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