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NICE Guidelines on Active Travel

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15 Dec 2012
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Sally Aston
NICE has issued new guidance on how to promote walking and cycling to tackles our nations health problems due to inactivity. As we all know the ‘inactivity epidemic’ has massive health consequences.…
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Priority Learning Outcomes Project

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13 Dec 2012
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Alice Inman
Educating for Sustainable Healthcare – Priority Learning Outcomes Project.Invitations have now been sent out to leaders in medical education and other representatives for a national consultation…
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An integrated kidney care system?

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12 Dec 2012
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Frances Mortimer
Where you live, does everyone with kidney disease know that they've got it and what it means? Are local GPs confident about how to manage them, and who will benefit from referral? It was inspiring…
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Cradle to Gate

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12 Dec 2012
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Rachel Stancliffe
Greenhouse Gas Accounting Sector Guidance for Pharmaceutical Products and Medical DevicesA consortium of major global companies has been working with the NHS SDU to agree standards for reporting of…
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COP18 and the Doha Declaration of Climate, Health and Wellbeing

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12 Dec 2012
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Isobel Braithwaite
The Annual UN Climate Conference, COP18 took place last week in Doha. This year, Jonny Elliott went to represent Healthy Planet at the conference. It was a tiring, exciting and often frustrating…
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New NICE Guidance on Walking and Cycling

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11 Dec 2012
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Ingeborg Steinbach
The government's health advisory body, NICE, has published new guidance which promotes active travel as a way of tackling our nation's health problems, such as obesity, in relation to inactivity.…
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End of life care

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21 Nov 2012
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Frances Mortimer
A large proportion of healthcare resources go into providing care for people in their last few months of life, but it is not always apparent that the interventions they receive are what they really…
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Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Healthcare Cost?

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15 Nov 2012
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Sally Aston
According to a new US based report 'Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Healthcare Cost Curve' sponsored by the Healthier Hospitals Initiative (HHI) and Health Care Without Harm, the…
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Sustainable Health and Social Care Research Summit

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14 Nov 2012
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Rachel Stancliffe
This event built on a scoping review of research needs conducted by The King's Fund and funded by the National Institute for Health Research and SCIE. Senior people with backgrounds in funding,…
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Cutting CO2 in kidney care: 102 heat exchangers fitted!

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13 Nov 2012
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Ingeborg Steinbach
In October 2011 The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) secured funding at the Pitch Pledge Party event, a 10:10 initiative in partnership with The Funding Network (TFN) and Guardian, for the…