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NICE guidance on brief advice for physical activity

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3 Jun 2013
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Frances Mortimer
Generally it seems like a good thing when NICE produces clinical guidance for evidence-based lifestyle interventions - helping to make them more officially part of good clinical care. So it's good to…
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BMJ editorial - Inhaled drugs and global warming: time to shift to dry powder inhalers

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29 May 2013
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Frances Mortimer
Asatmospheric carbon dioxide levels top 400 parts per million,an editorial in this week's BMJ from Nick Hopkinson, Toby Hillman and Frances Mortimer draws attention to the impact of respiratory…
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Frithwood Surgery launches their NHS Forest and Health Walk on 15th May

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14 May 2013
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Healthcare practitioners from Frithwood Surgery have created greenspace and designed a health walk from the GP surgery through the village demonstrating the practice’s commitment to the health and…
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CleanMed 2013 - call for case studies

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7 May 2013
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Frances Mortimer
CSH is hosting this year'sCleanMed Europeconference, 17-19 September 2013. The emphasis will be on redesigning healthcare for a sustainable future (as opposed to providing the same care more…
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CleanMed 2013 - call for case studies

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7 May 2013
by
Frances Mortimer
CSH is hosting this year'sCleanMed Europeconference, 17-19 September 2013. The emphasis will be on redesigning healthcare for a sustainable future (as opposed to providing the same care more…
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Plans underway for a Sustainable Respiratory Inhalers Programme

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4 Apr 2013
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Frances Mortimer
The continued use of metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) in respiratory care will have a potentially serious effect on global warming if production is not controlled, largely because these inhalers use…
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The Guardian - Sustainable Business - Health and Wellbeing

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3 Jan 2013
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Sally Aston
There is some interesting reading on Sustainable Business on the Guardian website and a ‘Health and Wellbeing’ link. SeehereThe director of the NHS Sustainable Development Unit, David Pencheon, talks…
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NICE Guidelines on Active Travel

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15 Dec 2012
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Sally Aston
NICE has issued new guidance on how to promote walking and cycling to tackles our nations health problems due to inactivity. As we all know the ‘inactivity epidemic’ has massive health consequences.…
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Cradle to Gate

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12 Dec 2012
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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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COP18 and the Doha Declaration of Climate, Health and Wellbeing

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12 Dec 2012
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Isobel Braithwaite
The Annual UN Climate Conference, COP18 took place last week in Doha. This year, Jonny Elliott went to represent Healthy Planet at the conference. It was a tiring, exciting and often frustrating…