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Draft Vision and Goals for the Sustainable Healthcare Education network

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16 Mar 2018
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Sarah Walpole
This is a draft mission statement of the Sustainable Healthcare Education network (SHE), developed by the core SHE team. It incorporates five year goals, and is for review and further discussion and…
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Large savings from nurse-led sustainable approach to meds

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15 Mar 2018
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This University Hospital Southampton Green Ward Competition project was conceived of and led by nurses and won! See below for what they did and what it saved. If you are thinking of doing the same…
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Promoting Sustainability in Healthcare Symposium - free places available

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15 Mar 2018
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Some free places available by emailing SustainabilitySHS@brighton.ac.uk (free places are sponsorship from Responsible Futures, SWR and Low Carbon Europe). School of Health Sciences…
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BMJ blog about a sustainable NHS

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11 Mar 2018
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In this blog piece for the BMJ, by Richard Smith, he celebrates progress with creating a sustainable NHS citing "one of the successes of health workers concerned with climate change has been to get…
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Cycling keeps your immune system young, study finds

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9 Mar 2018
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Jacqueline Cutting
A recent article in The Guardian highlighted a number of studies linked to the health benefits of cycling. The full article is here and the summaries below mention the individual studies. The piece…
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The US Nursing Collaborative on Climate Change and Health

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8 Mar 2018
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Last November five key US nursing organisations including the Association of Public Health Nurses and the National Student Nurses Association signed up to the 'Nursing Collaborative on Climate Change…
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Sustainability Series: Why nurses play a key role in making healthcare greener

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5 Mar 2018
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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is celebrating its 10 yearanniversary this year. To celebrate we are focusing on a different sustainble speciality each month in our Sustainability…
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UK Health Alliance on Climate Change: Job vacancy

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2 Mar 2018
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Ingeborg Steinbach
The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change is looking for a Policy and Public Affairs Manager. The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change brings together Britain’s leading health institutions,…
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NHS Employers Sustainable Health and Care Campaign

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27 Feb 2018
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Beth Barnes
For your interest please find below an upcoming NHS sustainabilitycampaign, which has been brought to our attention at The Royal College of Ophthalmologists,with a number of events, activities and…
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Sustainability in Dentistry- FDI General Assembly

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26 Feb 2018
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Darshini Ramasubbu
A great development in sustainability in dentistry: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/idj.12369/pdf