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NHS Sustainabilty Day 2013

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15 Mar 2013
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Ben Whittaker
For thoseof us working in the NHS,NHS Sustainability Dayis fast approaching on March 28th. It's agreat chance to raise awareness of sustainabilty issues and it would begood to hear any plans you…
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Sustainable healthcare: Spreading the word at medical school

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11 Mar 2013
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Eleanor Denny
My name is Eleanor and I am a 3rd year medical student at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. I am writing this first blog because I wanted to share some of my experiences in setting up a small group…
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Creating a Sustainable Lifestyle

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26 Feb 2013
by
Camille Dieterle
When I set out to create a college course about sustainability from the lens of an occupational therapist, I had no idea if it would create any real impact. Would students really care about how their…
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Cradle to Gate

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12 Dec 2012
by
Rachel Stancliffe
Greenhouse Gas Accounting Sector Guidance for Pharmaceutical Products and Medical DevicesA consortium of major global companies has been working with the NHS SDU to agree standards for reporting of…
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Investigating the potential role of OT in sustainability -- research project

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11 Oct 2012
by
Julie Dorsey
Hello everyone- I teach in the Dept of OT at Ithaca College, in Ithaca New York, USA. I recently completed my doctoral research looking at the role of occupational therapy in the emerging field of…
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Coming back to the world, or, How a Canvas bag changed my life

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9 Oct 2012
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Ben Whittaker
Those of you that read my previous OT Susnet bloglast November may rightly have been expecting a number of other blogs to follow shortly afterwards. Indeed, I said that they would be. The next month I…
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Sustainable Healthcare Education during NET 2012

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19 Sep 2012
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Stefi Barna
How can healthcare educators prepare their students for the clinical consequences of an increasingly unstable climate? What role can teachers and trainers have in changing clinical practice to support…
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Disruption as opportunity

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10 Jul 2012
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Toby Hillman
David Pencheon has been quoted recently as seeing opportunity in the disruption caused by the passing of the Health and Social Care Act. With new commissioning groups forming, priorities and visions…
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Article n the Guardian on pharmaceutical waste in the NHS

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4 Jul 2012
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Mark Rhodes
Not sure whether people have seen this article in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jul/03/prescription-medicine-unused?INTCMP=SRCH Regards, Mark
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Greener Inhalers for the UK

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13 Jun 2012
by
Rachel Stancliffe
The Centre's Sustainable Respiratory Care group will lead research on why the UK continues to use inhalers with a much higher carbon footprint than other European countries. 25,000 people a year die…