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…
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…
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…
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
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…
Dear OT Susnet friends,we would like to follow in the footsteps of the Green Nephrology network and start a case library of OT Susnet case studies - to share experiences of making OT departments run…
On the 23rd of March I was lucky to be among a group of respiratory professionals, representatives from primary care, nursing, academic and the pharmaceutical industry as we came together to discuss…
A little while ago GlaxoSmithKline funded a joint study with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford and Accenture. The outcome was a report entitled "Climate Change…
We are pleased to announce the upcoming special issue of the journal WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation (IOS Press) which will focus exclusively on Green Ergonomics,…
Hi all,Here is a link to the COT's specialist section on learning disabilities, they are calling on OT's to produce an audit tool that service users can use to evaluate their own living space. This…