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Your Thoughts About A Greener Future

Created on
30 Nov 2020
by
Vivien De Greef
The cover story for this month's OTnews is about A Greener Future. The article explores sustainable healthcare as a concept, and shares examples of sustainable occupational therapy practice from…
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Transition Towns & Health - What and How?

Created on
29 Nov 2020
by
James Warham
The main Transition Town site has full discription of the movement and ethos. "Transition is a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world. Here we explain what it…
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Breastfeeding and Climate Change Group - Yorkshire and Humber

Created on
25 Nov 2020
by
Sally Goodwin-mills
Who are we? We are a new, friendly and welcoming group of Infant Feeding leads working in a variety of settings who are passionate about supporting breastfeeding and increasing the number of women…
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Behavioural change interventions to increase active travel

Created on
17 Nov 2020
by
Ramya Ravindrane
Hi all, I'm working in a local authority that is trying to come up with low cost behavioural change interventions to increase the uptake of walking and cycling. There will be some infrastruture…
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Help needed - Greener respiratory care ideas

Created on
12 Nov 2020
by
Matthew Sawyer
Suggestions welcome! Having spoken to various colleagues - clinical (primary and secondary care) and pharmaceutical, engineers and waste providers,there appears to be appetite across these…
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Sharing SusQI ideas in primary care

Created on
3 Nov 2020
by
Tamsin Ellis
Calling all primary care healthcare professionals with great ideas for SusQI projects... We are looking to share case studies to support and inspire others in primary care using the CSH SusQI…
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Passivhaus health centre - presentation

Created on
2 Nov 2020
by
Frances Mortimer
The UK Passivhaus Trust conference is taking place over the next four Wednesday afternoons. There’s a presentation on a health centre (currently in design stage) on the first Wednesday - 4 Nov…
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MDU/MPS divestment

Created on
27 Oct 2020
by
Christelle Blunden
If you belong to one of the above organisations please do add your names to…
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Life-cycle analysis of HD in Newcastle Hospitals

Created on
9 Oct 2020
by
Suren Kanagasundaram
What is the true, lifecycle environmental impact of HD @NewcastleHosps. Can we develop metrics of good practice, recognised by clinicians and industry, alike? What are the key intervention points to…
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NHS becomes the world’s first national health system to commit to become ‘carbon net zero’

Created on
2 Oct 2020
by
Siobhan Parslow-Williams
NHS chief executiveSir Simon Stevens said: “2020 has been dominated by Covid-19 and is the most pressing health emergency facing us. But undoubtedly climate change poses the most profound long-term…