This guide supports commissioners, local health authorities and providers to think broadly, but practically, about building sustainable, resilient communities that have the potential, over time,…
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28 Oct 2015 •
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The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare & Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
This Occasional Paper explains how embedding the principles of sustainable health care can lead to services that are more person-centred and fit for the future. It provides an account of the carbon…
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is Naomi Klein's fourth book, and was published in September 2014.[1] In the book Klein argues that the climate crisis cannot be addressed in the…
If you are wondering what sustainability means for mental health care, take a look at this short 3-minute film. RCPsych Research Fellow in Sustainability 2013-15, Dr Daniel Maughan, based at the…
Consensus statement and videos from theRoyal College of Psychiatrists Sustainability Summit -1st October, 2014
Summit Consensus Statement on Sustainability in Mental Health
"Sustainability in…
This is an editorial that was published in in the Psychiatric Bulletin in May. It sets out what practising sustainably in mental health might look like and how best to achieve it.
This poster demonstrates the economic cost and carbon footprint associated with current patterns of prescribing long term Flupentixol Decanoate depot injections. Results suggest that over £500,000…
The 2013 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has caused renewed concern amongst both clinicians and health policy-makers. Climate change has not slowed but is continuing at an…