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World environment day

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4 Jun 2019
by
Nicola Hawkey
Hi folks #WorldEnvironmentDay Weds 5 June is World Environment Day and we have a few social media posts planned around dental sustainability and we will be tweeting about the CSH toolkit, the…
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New British Dental Journal 'Sustainable Dentistry' section online

Created on
15 May 2019
by
Sara Harford
Great news for Sustainable Dentistry! As part of the new British Dental Journal (BDJ) website they havecreated a section which brings together all of the recently publishedevidence-based papers on…
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Climate advocacy networking

Created on
2 May 2019
by
Frances Mortimer
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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Examples wanted for OTnews article about sustainable practice

Created on
8 Apr 2019
by
Ben Whittaker
An article is planned fora forthcoming edition of OTnews exploring examples of sustainable practice in various different settings. Are you practicing occupational therapy in a sustainable way? Or…
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Can Occupational Therapist’s social models of practice offer long term sustainable solutions in healthcare?

Created on
26 Feb 2019
by
Anna Michell
Check out Michelle Perryman on Episode 13 of the Podcast “Occupied” (http://www.brockcook.com/013/) eloquently speak about how Occupational Therapists as a young profession in a medical model world…
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Introductory blog from CSH's newest Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer

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17 Dec 2018
by
Anna Michell
Hello everyone, my name Anna Michell and I have become the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s (CSH) newest Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer. My role with CSH will be to write up case…
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New Colgate TerraCycle Oral Care Product Recycling Programme

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21 Nov 2018
by
Sara Harford
Fantastic news in support of environmentally sustainable dental care! Worldwide consumer oral hygiene product company Colgate have partnered up with TerraCycle to launch a new free programme in the UK…
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"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

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15 Nov 2018
by
James Szymankiewicz
"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing. We look for the causes of disease and aim to change behaviour to improve outcomes. We have a…
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Scottish CDO raises issue of plastic waste

Created on
30 Oct 2018
by
Mark Platt
Wonder if anyone caught this in the Scottish Daily Mail (23/10): 4.7m cups thrown away by dentists every year DENTISTS in Scotland are throwing away a shocking 4.7million plastic cups a…
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Calling all Q members (Health Foundation) with a passion for sustainability

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12 Sep 2018
by
Chantelle Rizan
Calling all sustainability friends… are you a Q member (Health Foundation)? We are pleased to announce we have just started a new Sustainability Specialist Interest group- please do join us…