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Two final year medical students in Oxford took part in a two-week special study module (SSM) on “Sustainable Healthcare” in 2011-12. The students each chose to focus on one of the four dimensions of…
This themed issue of JHH is free to access online; it includes articles by members of the SHE network on medical education and on the concept of resilience.
"Turning the NHS into an environmentally sustainable organisation will take more than switching off the lights in unused rooms. Rather, it demands a complete overhaul of attitudes and behaviour."…
Dissertation by Caroline Tomes, reading for MPhil in Public Health, University of Cambridge 2010-11. (Thesis supervised by Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia)
Objective: Climate change has been…
We ran a 5 week SSC for medical students May - June 2011. It was a full time SSC where the majority of time was spent on group project work and for three hours per week students attended tutorials…
This second year SSC allowed students to form groups and work on a project to communicate health and sustainability issues to a specific population of their choice.
These examples are from groups…
The Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) network was begun in June 2009 by a group of clinicians, academics and students interested in supporting the goals of NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy (2009) by…
This project was the winner of the 2011 Green Nephrology Award
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
James Dixon, Trust Waste Officer (and Chair of Sustainability Working…
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1 Mar 2011 •
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James Dixon, Trust Waste Officer (and Chair of Sustainability Working Group), Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Key learning point:
Administering IV antibiotics by bolus instead of infusion where possible offers great cost and carbon savings as well as more efficient use of nursing time. Savings could be…
Within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC) 505 people attend our chronic hospital haemodialysis programme equating to 78,780 resource intensive treatments per year in six renal dialysis units (RDUs).…
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3 Jan 2011 •
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Tara Collidge, Consultant Renal Physician, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde