It’s almost second nature for doctors to toss aside a suture kit once they’ve patched up a patient. But as those instruments join a pile of medical waste in an industry already heavy with single-use items, one U.K. centre is pivoting to reusing them.
The Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton is one of the first emergency departments in the U.K. to pilot using reusable suture instruments to better the service’s carbon footprint.
“We cannot talk about planetary health without embedding certain principles into everything that we do — and health care is no exception,” said Dr. Mahmood Bhutta, the clinical green
