Ana Smith works as Sustainability Administrator within the sustainability team of a large NHS Foundation Trust in the East of England. She originally trained as a nurse and worked at several hospitals - on wards, and running research projects - before studying Sustainability and Ecology in Sweden.
One of the biggest single sources of greenhouse gas for which the NHS is responsible comes via something that many patients – and staff – carry around in their pockets. A tiny, blue plastic tube, normally less than 10 cm in length