As I sat in the enormous main hall of BMA house yesterday at the BMJ’s conference ‘Health and Security perspectives on Climate Change’, on Monday, Thailand was beginning to come to terms with the…
Dear SustainistasIf you do can you connect me up? I need some case studies for a book chapter! Also GP practices that have a pooled car for on-call and visits?TanksTrevorPS: I am 100% car-free myself…
We want to collect together ideas for student projects in sustainable healthcare. Below are some of the projects previously suggested - does anyone have any other good ideas to add?Medical schoolWhat…
Over the past three years, we have been contacted by many GPs and others working in primary care - asking for information about greening their practice, and looking for others with similar values. We…
Green Respiratory Fellow 2011-12Job AdvertWhat will respiratory medicine look like in 5 years’ time, when carbon rationing is re-shaping the NHS? Do you want to take a lead in that transformation?The…
Following Monday the 19th of September, as the world meets to discuss NCD’s at the UN summit in New York; many eyes will be tuned in to change. Underlying the main event is a new precipitation of…
http://www.asme.org.uk/conferences/globalisation-of-health-autumn-2011.htmlThis meeting will include a morning workshop on Sustainable Healthcare Education with case studies and evaluation.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), have all joined 10:10,…
When I was at school, I remember having a vague sense I wanted to do something to do with either health or the environment. Medicine was a more established path than anything environmental, and seemed…