The National Orthopaedic Alliance’s latest guest blog post, Sustainability in Orthopaedic Surgery, comes from Irrum Afzal, Vipin Asopa, Vipul Patel and Deiary Kader of the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre:
“Sustainability in surgery continues to gain great traction as global warming and climate change continue to become an ever-growing problem. The NHS is the largest single contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in the public sector and NHS England has an annual carbon footprint of 24.9 million tonnes of CO2e. The Carbon footprint of an operating department within a large UK hospital is estimated at 5,000 tonnes CO2e/year and a single operation at 150-250kg CO2e…” Read the full blog here