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Green prescribing

Created on
23 Apr 2019
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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, we’ve been working with the University of Sheffield on the IWUN project, Valuing Urban Nature. Our role has been to translate the research outputs into something…
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Should the NHS declare a Climate Emergency?

Created on
21 Mar 2019
by
Angela Wilson
Dear All, It is NHS Sustainability day today. I would be grateful if you could comment on the following letter that has been sent to the Department of Health today asking for the NHS to declare…
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QI Inhaler Project in Primary Care

Created on
14 Feb 2019
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Deana Gershuny
Hi all, Does anyone have experience of reducing MDI prescribing/use in a community GP setting? I'm hoping to run a QI project to do this so keen to learn from others who have done the…
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Inhalers and NHS Long Term Plan

Created on
31 Jan 2019
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Frances Mortimer
The NHS Long Term Plan, published earlier this month, makes two references to inhaler climate change impact: Pg 120: The carbon footprint of health and social care has reduced by 19% since 2007,…
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MDIs to DPIs

Created on
27 Nov 2018
by
Christelle Blunden
Does anyone have an example of an audit or guideline review they have completed on the above which they are willing to share which I could use for inspiration to work with my practice and CCG on the…
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Expert Working Group on reducing the climate change impact of inhalers

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22 Nov 2018
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Frances Mortimer
A national (English) working group has been formed toestablish the approach and a potential target for reducing the climate change impact of inhalers. The impetus for the expert working group is to…
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"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

Created on
15 Nov 2018
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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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What is the carbon footprint of patients' travel to GP?

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14 Oct 2018
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Harry Longman
I run askmyGP, which aims to make it easier for patients to get help from their own GP, and easier for GPs to give the right help. A key element of this is the finding that only about one in three…
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Calling all Q members (Health Foundation) with a passion for sustainability

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12 Sep 2018
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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…
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Sustainability Series: What is the role of sustainable quality improvement?

Created on
5 Jul 2018
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As part of CSH's "Sustainability Series" we have this month published a blog on Sustainable Quality Improvement- all about how healthcaresystems can re-aligntheir definition of value in order to…