We are coordinating a project to plant 1.3 million trees in the UK with the staff and patients of the NHS. The project, currently in a pilot phase, will offer patients and relatives the opportunity to…
On 2nd April 2009 The Medical Fair and Ethical Trade Group (MFETG) won the Corporate Social Responsibility category at the BMJ Group Awards. The work of the MFETG is groundbreaking, and its success…
The UK Public Health Association’s 17th Annual Public Health Forum (Brighton Centre 25th and 26th march 2009) is majoring on the impacts of climate change on human health. And it has identified Carbon…
Applications opened on Tuesday to the groundbreaking one-year Green Nephrology Fellowship, funded by NHS Kidney Care. The first of its kind, the post is open to specialist trainees in renal medicine,…
"Sacked executive can argue he was discriminated against because of his belief in climate change, judge rules. An Executive sacked from a giant property company can claim he was unfairly dismissed…
A team from the CGH attended the peoples premier of the Age of Stupid film in Oxford on Sunday 15th March. I had been banging on about it for weeks so was delighted that my colleagues shared my…
Three students recruited by the Campaign for Greener Healthcare carried out carbon footprinting studies in Cornwall NHS in summer 2008. Hayley Manners, studying Analytical Chemistry at the University…
The South West became the first region to launch its Climate Connection activities – at a regional event entitled “Next Steps”, held in Bristol on Friday. At the workshop (run by Muir Gray and Frances…
Frances Mortimer and Tim Nicholson of the Campaign for Greener Healthcare attended the HPA Heatwave Seminar on 18th February in London. The Seminar will feed into the annual review of the DoH Heatwave…
In summer 2008, The Campaign for Greener Healthcare teamed up with Doctors.net.uk and BMA News to find the UK’s greenest and least green hospital messes.
In the competition, junior hospital…