In celebration of our 10th birthday, we have launched the Sustainability Series. In a series of blogs and practical guides we will be focusing on a different specialty each month and providing…
This was a very research-rich event which clearly put climate change on the health 'to-do' list. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change (one of the organisers) has produced a good summary…
I was asked to contribute a health-related article for a special Green Infrastructure themed edition of Town and Country Planning, the journal of the TCPA.
This is the outcome. It is driven largely…
In my final year as a GP trainee I undertook a sustainability scholarship and learned about sustainable healthcare. Applying this knowledge I ran a sustainability project in the GP surgery I was…
Hello! I am Makena Lohr and just wanted to briefly introduce myself as one of CSH’s two new interns for Autumn 2017. Liora Michlin and I started at CSH earlier this week and are pleased to have had a…
Nearly 1 in 4 people in England are classified as ‘inactive’, doing under 30 minutes of physical activity a week, and face the greatest risks to health as a result. The UK Chief Medical Officers…
As many NHS professionals will be aware the NHS has committed to reduce its carbon footprint in line with the Climate Change Act (2008) but, aside from ensuring that legislative targets are reached,…
Today CSH has launched the Green Nurse Network in collaboration with the Royal College of Nursing, the Faculty of Heath & Human Sciences at Plymouth University and Medact.
Nurses are the…
I recently attended a conference at the King’s Fund in London entitled ‘Social prescribing; from rhetoric to reality’. It was a great day with lots of interesting speakers sharing their views and…
GP Sustainability scholar, Dr Claudia Wegner, is working on a project to improve the wellbeing of the elderly population in Cheddar. The initiative provides time and space for younger and older people…