We are increasingly being contacted by GP trainees (and educators) wishing to develop a special interest in sustainable healthcare. So Ithought it might be helpful to share these few notes about how…
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Can anyone point me in the direction of a resource which provides numbers for the environmental costs of investigations such as x-rays and ultrasound scans. I'm trying to demonstrate the…
Does anyone have experience of using the NICE patient decision aid forinhalers (which includesa section on environmental impacts)?It would be really useful to know how people have found it.
Has it…
"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of…
As reported in this weeks' BMJ, Simon Stevens, has said that the NHS will commission public services in areas where local authorities are allocating insufficient funding due to council spending cuts.…
I am invitingGPs to participate in a shortHealth Research Authorityapproved questionnaire as part of my PhD (at the University of Sheffield). Ittakes approximately5 minutesto complete.The results will…
Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected. Many of us therefore feel that we should use our position to speak out and make sure that people know about the climate emergency and the…
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I'm carrying out a QI project at a GP practice in Kent piloting the use of the new decision aid to see what impact it has on inhaler prescribing and DPI:MDI ratio.
I'll be collecting…
"People with asthma will be helped to choose the inhaler that is best for them, and best for the environment, by a new patient decision aid from NICE.
"Anew patient decision aidhighlights that some…