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2012: Don't Waste the Year - save up to £90 million!

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18 Jan 2012
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Rachel Stancliffe
This year the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is focusing on helping clinical specialties and organisations to cut their wasteto save money and carbon.While we are involved with many longer term…
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Welcome to the network for Sustainable Respiratory Care!

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11 Jan 2012
by
Rachel Stancliffe
What will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS?We are starting an exciting project, funded for a year by GSK, to improve the environmental…
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Welcome to the Sustainable Respiratory Care Network!

Created on
11 Jan 2012
by
Rachel Stancliffe
What will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS?We are starting an exciting project, funded for a year by GSK, to improve the environmental…
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Occupational Science and Sustainability: A Conference Report

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2 Jan 2012
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Mami Aoyama
(Left to Right:Izuru Sakai, Mark Hudson, Teena Clouston,Marie Anne Ben, Mami Aoyama. Inset: Moses Ikiugu)The annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Occupation: USA (SSO: USA) was held in Park…
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Say no to tat at Xmas!

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22 Dec 2011
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Sally Aston
Dear Sustainable Primary Care network colleagues, It's that time of the year when we are all rushing around frantically buying and gathering things for the home; struggling to find presents which may…
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Green Nephrology update Christmas 2011

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19 Dec 2011
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Frances Mortimer
Happy Christmas! Here's what has been happening across the Green Nephrology Network in 2011 ***Launch of online Green Nephrology Network*** This new network enables all members of the Green…
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Automatic IT shutdown - case study from Lanarkshire

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15 Dec 2011
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Frances Mortimer
Jamie Traynor and Raymond Donnelly in Lanarkshire have contributed a Green Nephrology case study on the automatic shutdown of computers in the renal department over night. The scheme has been…
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Want a sustainable Christmas present to buy friends and family?

Created on
12 Dec 2011
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Admin *
Sponsor a tree for just £10 this Christmas and support the NHS Forest with this long lasting, healthy gift. www.nhsforest.org/sponsor Want to demonstrate your support for the NHS Forest? Why not send…
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Grants and loans for small businesses for renewables and low carbon technology

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28 Nov 2011
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Christelle Blunden
Dear allI spoke to the Carbon Trust todayhttp://www.carbontrust.co.uk/Pages/Default.aspxthey offer loans to small businesses taking up greener technologies, improving building efficiency on existing…
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OT Susnet - The Story so Far

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15 Nov 2011
by
Ben Whittaker
Hello there! In the spring the Green Occupational Therapy Network was relaunched as the Occupational Therapy Sustainable Practice Network or OT Susnet. Since then I’ve been the network lead through a…