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KitNewCare project presentation video launched
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the KitNewCare project presentation video. This video provides an overview of the project, outlining its key aims, innovations, and the impact it seeks to make on kidney care and sustainability.
KitNewCare, funded by the European Union, is focused on transforming kidney care through the integration of sustainable practices and new technologies. The video highlights how the project plans to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare while maintaining high standards of patient care.
Key topics covered in the video include:
- Project vision: an introduction to KitNewCare’s goal of advancing sustainable kidney care.
- Innovations: insights into the new technologies being trialled, such as energy-saving methods, water treatment improvements, and waste reduction in dialysis.
- Sustainability focus: a look at how KitNewCare is working to lower carbon emissions, cut waste, and boost the efficiency of kidney care.
- Training for professionals: the video also covers how KitNewCare is supporting healthcare staff with new skills and knowledge to adopt greener practices.
Watch the video and share it with your networks. Together, we can help build a more sustainable future for kidney care.
Contacts:
Project coordinator:
Brett Duane, Trinity College Dublin, brettdu@tcd.ie
Lead Project Manager:
Anita Griffin, Trinity College Dublin, griffia8@tcd.ie
Communication Manager:
Cesar G. Crisosto, ICONS, cesar.crisosto@icons.it
September 19, 2024
Scientific publications
Beyond carbon: the parts of sustainable kidney care that are still missing
Most of what has been published on sustainable kidney care measures one thing: environmental impact, usually carbon. KitNewCare was designed on the premise that this is not enough, and a group of the project's publications is now mapping what the field still does not know.
Scientific publications
An open library of kidney care life cycle data, free for anyone to reuse
Anyone who has attempted a life cycle assessment in healthcare knows where the work actually goes. Not in the modelling, but in the weeks beforehand: dismantling every consumable in a treatment pathway, weighing each component, identifying each polymer, and reconstructing the clinical process in enough detail that the inventory means something. It is unglamorous, it is slow, and it is repeated from scratch by nearly every team that tries.
Scientific publications
Modality matters less than you think. What happens to the plastic matters more.
If a dialysis service wanted to reduce its environmental impact by choosing between haemodialysis and online haemodiafiltration, a KitNewCare study in Modena has an unhelpful answer: it barely matters. The more useful finding sits elsewhere in the same numbers.
