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Can Occupational Therapist’s social models of practice offer long term sustainable solutions in healthcare?

Created on
26 Feb 2019
by
Anna Michell
Check out Michelle Perryman on Episode 13 of the Podcast “Occupied” (http://www.brockcook.com/013/) eloquently speak about how Occupational Therapists as a young profession in a medical model world…
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QI Inhaler Project in Primary Care

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14 Feb 2019
by
Deana Gershuny
Hi all, Does anyone have experience of reducing MDI prescribing/use in a community GP setting? I'm hoping to run a QI project to do this so keen to learn from others who have done the…
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“Sustainability for Healthcare Management: A Leadership Imperative” (2018)

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7 Feb 2019
by
Andriele Madison
Have you read this piece by Carrie Rich, J. Knox Singleton and Seema S. Wadhwa? “The importance of educating current healthcare leaders about sustainability should not be underestimated. For many…
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Brief intervention for obesity - sustainable healthcare in practice

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7 Feb 2019
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Kathleen Leedham-Green
Dear SHE Colleagues For those of you interested in preventative healthcare education,my colleagues and I have recently published an open access paper on the experiences of medical students usinga…
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Inhalers and NHS Long Term Plan

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31 Jan 2019
by
Frances Mortimer
The NHS Long Term Plan, published earlier this month, makes two references to inhaler climate change impact: Pg 120: The carbon footprint of health and social care has reduced by 19% since 2007,…
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Could you host a SHE regional masterclass?

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28 Jan 2019
by
Frances Mortimer
The Sustainable Healthcare EducationNetwork is planning a series of regional (UK) workshops in May-June 2019. These will be inter-professional events, designedto support universities in introducing…
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Anaesthetic gas - monitoring practice and motivating change

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26 Jan 2019
by
Matthew Jenks
An update to a post i entered 8 months ago. Since introducing regular monitoring of our anaesthetic gas usage and encouraging reduced desflurane use we continue to see a steady decline in Desflurane…
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Researching the Provision of Emergency Eye Care in the UK

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24 Jan 2019
by
Andriele Madison
Emergency Eye Care is widely used in the UK and understanding more about the processes involved in care delivery can be beneficial toward improving workflow and appropriately allocating…
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Driving sustainable healthcare education through the development of assessment practices

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21 Jan 2019
by
Kathleen (Kay) Leedham-Green
The GMC has recently announced that it requires all UK medical schools to ensure that graduating doctors are able to apply the principles of sustainable healthcare to their practice by 2020 [1]. There…
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Submitting SHE abstracts to AMEE 2019 (deadline 6 Feb)

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16 Jan 2019
by
Frances Mortimer
We are planning to submit at least one abstract for a workshop on sustainable healthcare education at the AMEE 2019Association for Medical Education in Europeconference. If anyone would like to…