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National health organisations make their commitments to sustainable development

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30 Jan 2017
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Ingeborg Steinbach
The Department of Health and eight major health organisations have stated their organisational commitments to deliver a socially and environmentally sustainable health and care system. The…
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Words of advice for President Trump

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23 Jan 2017
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Frances Mortimer
Bravo to Nick Hopkinson and co-authors of this letter on "Climate Change and Lung Health: the challenge for a new president" published in Thorax last…
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New report 'Good practice in social prescribing for mental health: The role of nature-based interventions'

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20 Jan 2017
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
The report 'Good practice in social prescribing for mental health: The role of nature-based interventions', published today on gov.uk, sets out the benefits of social prescribing for mental health,…
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New report 'Good practice in social prescribing for mental health: The role of nature-based interventions'

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20 Jan 2017
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
The report 'Good practice in social prescribing for mental health: The role of nature-based interventions', published today on gov.uk, sets out the benefits of social prescribing for mental health,…
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Carbon footprint of GSK inhalers

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11 Jan 2017
by
Alexander Wilkinson
This isn't widely available but GSK have given it to me so I'm sharing it. It shows the carbon-trust-certified carbon footprint of their inhalers. Headline figures are: 30 days of seretide 250…
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NHS Forest Christmas Newsletter

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13 Dec 2016
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The NHS Forest has published a seasonal Newsletter. As well as some festive links, including our good friends at the Tree Charter, this issuepicks up some of our recent work on the subject of…
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Very interesting piece on...

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11 Nov 2016
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Very interesting piece on the health impacts of protected cycle lanes. H/T Nigel Blandford, National Trust.
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Choosing Wisely

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8 Nov 2016
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On the 24th October 2016 the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges brought out a report called Choosing Wisely . It was inspired by a world-wide initiative to encourage greater communication between…
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Air quality ruling

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3 Nov 2016
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This week the High Court found the government's action on air quality to be inadequate. In the second successful case against the government in two years brought by the legal charity Client Earth, the…
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Final programme released for Transforming Mental Health and Dementia Provision with the Natural Environment conference

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3 Nov 2016
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We're pleased to release our final programme for the upcoming "Transforming Mental Health and Dementia Provision with the Natural Environment" conference, which will take place Thursday 10th November…