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Health systems are significant contributors to carbon emissions, and the effects of climate change negatively impact human health. The chapter outlines the role of healthcare providers…
Quality improvement (QI) projects are a mandatory part of postgraduate medical training in the UK and graduating medical students must be competent in QI theory. We evaluated an educational toolkit…
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18 Nov 2024 •
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Spooner, R., Stanford, V., Parslow-Williams, S., Mortimer, F., & Leedham-Green, K.
The healthcare sector is a major contributor to climate change and there are international calls to mitigate environmental degradation through more sustainable forms of clinical care. The UK…
There is a pressing need for more sustainable healthcare. UK medical graduates are required to apply social, economic, and environmental principles of sustainability to their practice. The Centre for…
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18 Nov 2024 •
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Clery P, d'Arch Smith S, Marsden O, and Leedham-Green K.
This is a free online carbon footprint calculator for use in in-centre haemodialysis units. It measures your overall footprint and carbon intensity per patient session, and identifies the greenhouse…
Open access article looking at the patient, hospital and environmental cost of unnecessary bloodwork in general surgery inpatients at Vancouver General Hospital.
The article estimates the carbon…
The UK- basedSustainability in Pharmacy Education Group has developed a document which mapsenvironmental sustainability to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) learning outcomes for the initial…
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28 Jun 2023 •
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Sustainability in Pharmacy Education Group, Pharmacy Schools Council
In this newly launched podcastGPs Daisy Lund and Clare Day take you through all things health and plant based.
The intro episode explores how Daisy and Clare became plant based and how they apply…
