No matter how much we hear about the health threats of global warming and the benefits of low carbon lifestyles, there are times as we go about our daily lives when we can still feel powerless to make…
The BMA’s Medical Fair and Ethical Trade group has launched an information campaign telling doctors about the dangerous working conditions and child labour evident in the production of NHS medical…
The Department of Health is running a consultation on NHS car parking: improving access for patients. Have your say by the DEADLINE 23 February.
Sustrans have prepared a very helpful submission which…
Between March 31st 2008 and April 1st 2009, the renal team in a DGH not too far from me requested that their patients attend the hospital's radiology department as outpatients on 534 occasions…
As reported by the NHS SDU, the Carbon Trading Public Sector 2010-2011 scheme is being offered to NHS Trusts along with other public sector bodies to give organisations advance hands-on experience of…
In a letter to all London Trusts Ruth Carnall, CEO NHS London, requires carbon reduction to be embedded into how they plan and operate. The letter significantly raises the profile of carbon reduction…
WSP Environment & Energy is working with the Department of Health to update its guidance on the Safe Management of Healthcare Wastes (HTM07-01). You can influence the process by providing feedback on…
Take one hospital bed, 50 sets of fairtrade surgical scrubs, one sick planet and over one hundred health professionals. Fire them up with calls for urgent action on climate change from an inspiring…
Prion risk: where do we draw the line? Millions of nail clippers are incinerated every year across the NHS, as a result of policies to manage the theoretical risk of vCJD, according to an article by…
The health benefits of strategies for tackling climate change were described as "a convenient truth" at the launch of groundbreaking research published by the Lancet yesterday. The series of six…