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Expert Working Group on reducing the climate change impact of inhalers

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22 Nov 2018
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Frances Mortimer
A national (English) working group has been formed toestablish the approach and a potential target for reducing the climate change impact of inhalers. The impetus for the expert working group is to…
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NHS energy efficiency fund for LED lighting

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21 Nov 2018
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Jacqueline Cutting
The government has made £46 million available through Public Dividend Capital funding for NHS trusts to improve and expand the use of LED lighting across their services, to save the NHS money and…
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New Colgate TerraCycle Oral Care Product Recycling Programme

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21 Nov 2018
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Sara Harford
Fantastic news in support of environmentally sustainable dental care! Worldwide consumer oral hygiene product company Colgate have partnered up with TerraCycle to launch a new free programme in the UK…
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Recycling Inhalers

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15 Nov 2018
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Christelle Blunden
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"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

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15 Nov 2018
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James Szymankiewicz
"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing. We look for the causes of disease and aim to change behaviour to improve outcomes. We have a…
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Assessment Workshop: How to write questions on sustainable healthcare

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12 Nov 2018
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Joey Brooke
Listening to feedback from our members and sustainable healthcare education representatives, we have identified that assessing sustainable healthcare is a troublesome area, and people feel out of…
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Call for Abstracts - Sustainability and Health Conference - University of Brighton

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9 Nov 2018
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Heather Baid
The University of Brighton School of Health Sciences 5th annual sustainability conference will be held 3 May 2019. The conference aims to present the diversity of sustainable practices within…
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Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education

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5 Nov 2018
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Frances Mortimer
Members of the SHE network may already be aware of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE), which is hosted by the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. The…
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Scottish CDO raises issue of plastic waste

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30 Oct 2018
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Mark Platt
Wonder if anyone caught this in the Scottish Daily Mail (23/10): 4.7m cups thrown away by dentists every year DENTISTS in Scotland are throwing away a shocking 4.7million plastic cups a…
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International Council of Nurses statement on climate change

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18 Oct 2018
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Janet Richardson
The international Council of Nurses released their updated position statement on climate change at their annual conference last month. Please help to amplify this announcement. You can view therelease…