IPEM Environmental Sustainability

Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM)'s @ipemnews Environmental Sustainability Committee

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

We now also have a Community of Interest group open here:

https://t.co/6U1tNRxEx3

This is a forum (you will need to register) to discuss environmental sustainability. Please take a look 👀 and feel free to ask questions ❓. @IPEMConferences

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

🚨We have 6⃣ orals at #STEF24 on environmental sustainability! So come join us 9-10 Oct in London for a programme built around sustainable and ethical healthcare, AI and workforce and skills.

👉For more information and to book see here: https://t.co/Ozc5s2fxX7

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

REMINDER: 📆The radiotherapy board sustainability group (of which @ipemnews and @IPEMEnvironment are a part) is helping to organise a FREE event in London (🖥️also available online) on the 18th June.

For more information and to book your place: https://t.co/gHTtNM0MXG

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

📆The radiotherapy board sustainability group (of which @ipemnews and @IPEMEnvironment are a part) is helping to organise a free event in London (🖥️also available online) on the 18th June.

More details and to book your place 👉 https://t.co/gHTtNM0MXG

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

🎧 Its out now!

[Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine @ipemnews]

Join Dr Robert Chuter, Secretary of the @IPEMEnvironment for the @PhysicsWorld Weekly Podcast on 25 April where he will be discussing the environmental sustainability challenges for the medical physics community https://t.co/RXgp8rHbW3

[UKIOCongress @UKIOCongress]

Speaker highlights from #UKIO2024...

@RobChuter will give a talk on climate change and its links with healthcare & #radiotherapy in a session on Environmental #sustainability in #oncology

View the full programme and book your place at https://t.co/T1b9NBneXA

@ipemnews

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

🍃The joint RT Board (@ipemnews, @RCRadiologists and @SCoRMembers) environmental sustainability group has collected together green radiotherapy projects from across the UK.

📖Read it here: https://t.co/V6xihB2nHo

If you know of others let us know!

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

Another example of work done within this group and this time published in an IPEM journal (https://t.co/I7LIR94UCV) 👍

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

A very nice blog post from Sara Lightowlers on the recent BMJ Net Zero Clinical Care Conference 🍃.

She also nicely introduces the new joint environmental sustainability group between IPEM, RCR and SoR.

Well worth a read 👇

[BMJ Leader @BMJLeader]

The latest Greener Leader blog offers reflections from BMJ #NetZeroClinicalCare Conference

"Our people need time, resources & support to build on the important work that has already begun & was rightly celebrated during this event"
@UKHealthClimate

👉 https://t.co/RI4n6Hwa5W

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

A joint IPEM/RCR/SoR environmental sustainability group now exists. We are collating all the work that has been done to make RT more sustainable. If you have done a "Green" project in radiotherapy please share it here: https://t.co/nNVvsalEGQ

@RCRadiologists @SCoRMembers

[ESTRO @ESTRO_RT]

🟢Join us in shaping a sustainable future! Committed to our planet and healthcare's impact? 🌍Make a difference in radiation oncology. Collaborating with Physics Workshop 2023, we invite you to our webinar on Carbon Footprint in RT Centres.
🌿Register: https://t.co/DfwPks5Aom

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

This Zero Carbon Commuting Conference (Z3C) may be of interest to people: https://t.co/v826RlwPWV 🚴🚶

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

This is a great example of what groups like ours can achieve. This work involved 4 members of our IPEM Environmental Sustainability group. 👏 @ipemnews

[Katie Lichter MD MPH @LichterKatie]

👀 Did you know #radonc? Our tx machines unintentionally release a potent #greenhousegas SF6 every day that is 23,000x worse than #CO2

🔍 We dug into the data & found the collective leakage from all tx machines 🌍 = 1 yr emissions from >14k cars 🚗💨

...& its other #medtech too

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

Sharing:

To help us understand what ‘climate resilience ‘means, how vulnerable communities on the front line prepare, what the risks for the NHS and how to prepare, we are joined by Mark Harvey & Emer O’Connell

14th July 14:00 Teams:
Meeting ID: 357 380 699 511
Passcode: poH5SP

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

@stevet_l @PattyDiezH @SABRconsortium @fifimcdrmh @fizzy_cyst @drjamesgood @Dr_AJC @Helen__Grimes @aileen_duffton @LisaJaneConway @cpeedell @Anoopharidass1 @gerryhanna Ball park travel carbon 👣: 45 tCO2e* which is equivalent to driving 150,000 miles or 2,250 people getting a train from London to Birmingham and back.

*assuming 250 delegates and that on average everyone flies from Birmingham and back. Like I said ball park.

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

This looks interesting!

[North West HCSTN @NorthWestHCSTN]

♻️♻️Sign up to our webinar on 23/06/23 at 1pm about the Greener NHS programme and learn about how you can promote sustainability in your department! ♻️♻️

Sign up below ⬇️ ⬇️

https://t.co/ONcjTshFFC

[Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine @ipemnews]

Afternoon Lightning Talks!⚡
🕐 13.45 - 14.05
⭐Estimating carbon footprint & heat recovery potential of linear accelerator cooling systems
🗣 Joshua Cartwright, Sustainability Fellow in Adult #Oncology, @NewcastleHosps
📌 B61
@SCoRMembers @BIR_News @UKIOCongress
#UKIO2023

[IPEM Environmental Sustainability @IPEMEnvironment]

This sounds super interesting! 🌳

[Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine @ipemnews]

There's still time to book for our Environmental Sustainability in Clinical/Rehabilitation Engineering online event, taking place on 30 March, exploring actions to help reduce carbon footprints https://t.co/lOxpmtVSrz
@IPEMEnvironment

[Royal College of Psychiatrists @rcpsych]

We are inviting evidence from mental health services, trusts & boards that demonstrate interventions initiated with the aim of delivering greener/ sustainable/ net zero mental health care to inform a report and resources.

Read & submit by 11/04 here ➡️ https://t.co/iFS1nGyGNy