Sustainable care.
Starting in the
operating theatre.
Research, education, policy and advocacy for environmentally responsible healthcare, with patient safety at the centre.
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Care for patients.
Consideration for
the environment.
Green Theatre is an organisation focused on environmentally sustainable healthcare, with a particular interest in anaesthesia and operating theatre practice.
We connect the everyday realities of care with the wider decisions that shape it. Our purpose is to make sustainability a considered part of clinical practice, professional learning and healthcare planning.
Sustainability is not about doing less for patients. It is about looking carefully at how care is delivered and where avoidable environmental harm can be reduced.
For Green Theatre, good patient care is the starting point. Environmental responsibility belongs alongside clinical judgement, evidence and an understanding of the setting in which care takes place. [4]
One considered
approach.
Research
Asking useful questions about healthcare and its environmental impact, with attention to evidence, context and practical relevance.
Education
Making sustainability easier to understand and connecting environmental ideas with the everyday work of healthcare professionals.
Policy & advocacy
Bringing a clinical perspective to healthcare policy, institutional decisions and public understanding of environmental responsibility.
Responsible practice
Considering how medicines, materials, equipment and other resources are used, while keeping their clinical purpose in view.
From everyday care
to wider decisions.
Green Theatre’s interests extend from what happens in an operating theatre to the guidance, priorities and systems around it. Research helps frame the questions. Education makes them understandable. Policy and advocacy bring them into the wider conversation about healthcare.
Our policy perspectiveLowFlowby Green Theatre
Explore the estimated carbon impact of inhaled anaesthetic agents with LowFlow, our public educational calculator. It offers a practical way to understand how agent choice, fresh gas flow and duration relate to consumption and emissions.
Understanding first.
Learning that supports practice.
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