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New report : Kidney Disease: A UK Public Health Emergency

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28 Mar 2024
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Lucy Brown
Kidney disease: A UK public health emergency - Kidney Research UK Please see attached the latest report from Kidney Research UK on the stark statistics of how kidney disease is impacting on our…
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Petition: Make Chronic Kidney Disease a Key Clinical Priority

Created on
28 Mar 2024
by
Lucy Brown
Dear All Following an insightful and informative webinar this afternoon with Alison Railton, Head of Policy and External Affairs at Kidney Research UK, please find attached the petition discussed…
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Tree Planting and Conservation within Occupational Therapy

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28 Mar 2024
by
Harriet White
Technical instructor in the Occupational Therapy Department, Alex Watkins, spoke to me about some projects he's been leading at Langdon Hospital. Alex initially led projects in the woodworking…
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Patient information leaflet / education pack on sustainable kidney care

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26 Mar 2024
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Stephanie Choo
Hi all, Has anyone developed an education pack / poster / leaflet for patients on sustainable kidney care? We are trying to encourage our patients to bring their own blankets (and mugs!) to…
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CASCADES Publishes Sustainable Occupational Therapy Playbook

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25 Mar 2024
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Ben Whittaker
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) have published the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, which is available here. This playbook provides background…
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Sick day rules in extreme heat / Prevention

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18 Mar 2024
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Nuala Hampson
Is there any guidance out there for patients with CKD on sick day rules for medicines in periods of extreme heat? Also any useful prevention fact sheets / patient information resources for patient…
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KitNewCare - Press Release

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14 Mar 2024
by
Lucy Brown
KitNewCare: Transforming Kidney Healthcare Across Europe KitNewCare – part of the European Union’s key funding programme forinnovation and research to tackle climate change and achieve the United…
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Nature Based Interventions in a Cornish Woodland

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13 Mar 2024
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Harriet White
I caught up with Peta Temple who's been working on a groundbreaking project involving a four-acre woodland site adjacent to Liskeard’s Community Hospital. Plans are in place to transform it into a…
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Nature connection/green in hospital?

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7 Mar 2024
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Emma Vittery
Hi everyone, I'm doing a partnership with a wildlife trust aiming to facilitate nature connection activities (? butterfly hatching, seed planting, nature based mindfulness etc...) and environmental…
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PFAF Food Forest funding available!

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20 Feb 2024
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Harriet White
Not affiliated with NHS Forest, but we just noticed that Plants For the Future has funding of £1000-£3000 available for Food Forest projects. Bearing in mind that NHS Forest will be supplying…