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Anyone know any car-free GPs?

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18 Oct 2011
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Trevor Thompson
Dear SustainistasIf you do can you connect me up? I need some case studies for a book chapter! Also GP practices that have a pooled car for on-call and visits?TanksTrevorPS: I am 100% car-free myself…
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Couch Rolls Made with Recycled Paper

Created on
18 Oct 2011
by
Trevor Thompson
GuysDo you know anywhere you can buy couch rolls made from recycled paper?Trev
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Renal units in Kent are now counting the benefit from the installation of heat exchangers to dialysis machines.

Created on
15 Oct 2011
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The project to retro-fit heat exchangers in dialysis machines at various renal units around East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust is nearing completion. Funding for 52 machines was…
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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare secured Funding at Pitch Pledge Party

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14 Oct 2011
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CHS) secured funding at last Monday's Pitch Pledge Party Event for the promotion of retrofitting heat exchangers to kidney dialysis machines throughout the…
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Ideas for student projects?

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13 Oct 2011
by
Frances Mortimer
We want to collect together ideas for student projects in sustainable healthcare. Below are some of the projects previously suggested - does anyone have any other good ideas to add?Medical schoolWhat…
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Welcome to the Sustainable Primary Care forum

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12 Oct 2011
by
Frances Mortimer
Over the past three years, we have been contacted by many GPs and others working in primary care - asking for information about greening their practice, and looking for others with similar values. We…
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Vote for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare to win £1010 to cut carbon emissions!

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5 Oct 2011
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Ingeborg Steinbach
Vote for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare to win £1010 to cut carbon emissions! The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s project to support NHS organisations to retro-fit heat exchangers to…
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Looking for a Green Fellow in Sustainable Respiratory Medicine

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21 Sep 2011
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Ingeborg Steinbach
Green Respiratory Fellow 2011-12Job AdvertWhat will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS? Do you want to take a lead in that transformation?The…
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Non-Communicable Diseases: seizing new opportunities

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19 Sep 2011
by
Shuo Zhang
Following Monday the 19th of September, as the world meets to discuss NCD’s at the UN summit in New York; many eyes will be tuned in to change. Underlying the main event is a new precipitation of…