Consultant surgeon Aneel Bhangu says that the NHS has a responsibility to patients and their families to plan for their healthy future
I’m Matt Rosser with news that what’s believed to be the world’s first ‘net-zero’ operation has been performed in the UK at Solihill Hospital in Birmingham. Through using intravenous anaesthetic instead of gas, LED lighting and reusable scrubs to planting trees in the hospital grounds and the two surgeons cycling and running to work they managed to make a five hour bowel cancer operation carbon neutral. Surgery accounts for a quarter of the emissions from a typical NHS trust and Consultant surgeon Aneel Bhangu says that the NHS has a responsibility to patients and their families to plan for their healthy future. We’ll keep you up to date, here on Care Radio.
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