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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The article "Reducing the environmental impact of cataract surgery: Sustainability versus safety: A tradeoff?"published by Dr. Nick Mamalis (University of Utah, USA) discusses the evidence available…
Submit an abstract for the 2019 RCOphth Annual Congress. Prize awards include The Royal College of Ophthalmology/ Bausch and Lomb Sustainability Prize.
A prize for sustainability of £200 will be…