The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare are collaborating with Ecominds project ‘Connect’ in Grimsby. Connect is designed to bridge the gap between the GP and community structures that contribute to…
Happy New Year PsychSusnet members! I hope you have made lots of sustainable new years resolutions!!! The New Year has started well for sustainability in mental health. The RCPsych have agreed to the…
The Natural Approach to Meaningful Occupation (NAMO) is a model I have designed to aid occupational therapy interventions, considering features of outdoor natural environments. NAMO allows…
A grant of over £500,000 has been awarded to Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CFT) by the NHS Energy Efficiency Initiative to help implement its eco-friendly green travel plans.CFT has used…
Dear Psych susnet members, This is a Christmas message to you all. I would like to say a big thank you to you for signing up to this network, engaging with this important agenda and for your continued…
The Estates and IT departments at Sheffield Health and Social Care have conducted astudy which showed that computersturned on were inactive for 42% of the time. Inactive hours are composed of user…
When baby boomers think back to their childhoods, they can probably recall a treehouse, a Boy/Girl Scout camping trip, family picnics, or a passion for fishing, hunting or horse riding. Now we need to…
Question: What should our priority be as psychiatrists? Answer: The mental health of our patients! Unfortunately, it is not as simple as that! Questions such as ‘where does the responsibility for our…
I'm a junior doctor interested in reducing the amount of clinical waste produced by the theatres in the hospital that I work in, much as the recycling project in the Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital…
David Nicholson who has just left his post as CEO of the NHS wrote a letter to all commissioners and Trust Chief Executives calling them to improve the sustainability of services. It would be…