Nominations are open for the first Greener AHP Award

This year's Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) Awards has the category of Greener AHP Award for the first time.

Clear guidance on glove use and selection is included in the new NHS 'National infection prevention and control manual for England'

MENTAL HEALTH AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS - ELFT CONFERENCE

For those who missed it this conference with an excellent presentation by the awesome Caroline Hickman from the Climate Psychology Alliance on the

Glove Awareness Week resources: 2 May to 6 May 2022

Glove Awareness Week runs from the 2nd to 6th May this year and focuses on encouraging nursing staff - and medical and health care professionals - to make one change to reduce their unnecessary glove use and help make health care more sustainable. RCN resources available.

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April, 2022

Next walking aid reuse drop-in session - 9th May @ 12pm

As many of you will know, the net zero and sustainable procurement team has been working with NHS trusts across England on a range of walking-aid r

AHP examples of digital transformation

One of the themes on the Greener AHP Hub is

SHARE conference - 6 May 2022 - Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

SHARE conference - Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

£7.45m funding available for two new research units

The Health Foundation’s REAL Centre has launched an ambitious new programme that will provide independent research that builds on the work of the REAL Centre, to help improve long-term decision making in health and social care. There may be good opportunities to propose research through the lens of sustainability.

NHS providers & the Government’s Social Value Model

From 1st April, all NHS providers are required to adopt the Government’s Social Value Model (Procurement Policy Note 06/20) and include a minimum of 10% weighting on net zero and social value into tenders.

March, 2022

Help shape CSH Networks & win a CSH course!

We are offering one free foundation level course run by CSH as a thanks for completing the CSH networks questionnaire by Sunday 3rd April. Open to network members and non-members, your responses will help us develop the networks and ensure that they best meet your needs.

Integrating planetary health into clinical guidelines - Lancet Planetary Health

In this review of 49 clinical guidelines from British, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Australian, European, German, and US-American medical associations, the authors found keywords related to planetary health (eg, climate change, air pollution, and emissions) were found in fewer than 5%.

March, 2022

International Womens day

Happy International Womens Day!

This is an interveiw I did for the Royal College of Psychiatry about women and climate change. I hope you find it interesting.

Walking Aid Reuse Schemes - drop-in session

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Survey for all AHP students in UK - please share widely

PLEASE SHARE - an invitation to AHP Students to take part in a sur

Greener initiatives in Podiatry

Royal College of Podiatry members look at the green initiatives that they have been implementing in their departments and clinics to help reduce their carbon footprint.

https://rcpod.org.uk/blog/greener-initiatives-in-podiatry

Royal College of Podiatry website

December, 2021

Welcome to Podiatry Susnet!

Hello, thank you for visiting Podiatry Susnet

Global Day of Action for Climate Justice

Join other health workers on the streets during the COP26 climate talks!

Greener AHP Hub launched

Yesterday saw the launch of the Greener AHP Hub. This was

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Remote Consultations: Do they reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Your Guide to calculating the Answer

This guide and carbon calculator have been developed by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in collaboration with PD Transformation and funded through Q by the Health Foundation and NHS England and NHS Improvement.

September, 2021

Sustainability in Quality Improvement learning resources

Sustainability has been recognised as a domain of quality in healthcare, and building it into quality improvement (QI) is a practical way to drive incremental change towards a more ethical, sustainable health system.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2017

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April, 2022

NHS providers & the Government’s Social Value Model

From 1st April, all NHS providers are required to adopt the Government’s Social Value Model (Procurement Policy Note 06/20) and include a minimum of 10% weighting on net zero and social value into tenders.

March, 2022

Integrating planetary health into clinical guidelines - Lancet Planetary Health

In this review of 49 clinical guidelines from British, Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, Australian, European, German, and US-American medical associations, the authors found keywords related to planetary health (eg, climate change, air pollution, and emissions) were found in fewer than 5%.

March, 2022

Greener initiatives in Podiatry

Royal College of Podiatry members look at the green initiatives that they have been implementing in their departments and clinics to help reduce their carbon footprint.

https://rcpod.org.uk/blog/greener-initiatives-in-podiatry

Royal College of Podiatry website

December, 2021

Greener AHP Hub

The Greener AHP Hub is a resource for Allied Health Professionals. It provides information and clear actionable steps which AHPs can take to improve their own environmental sustainability. The hub complements the

NHS England

October, 2021

Remote Consultations: Do they reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Your Guide to calculating the Answer

This guide and carbon calculator have been developed by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in collaboration with PD Transformation and funded through Q by the Health Foundation and NHS England and NHS Improvement.

September, 2021

Identifying the sustainable value of virtual care in occupational therapy

Article by Janet M. Craik

Occupational Therapy Now. 23(4): pp.9-11

July, 2021

Case study: pioneering early mobilisation in a cardiac intensive care unit

Early mobilisation after open heart surgery reduced ventilation days by a mean of 4 days and reduced cardiac intensive care stay by a mean of 6 days.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

February, 2021

The carbon footprint of waste streams in a UK hospital

This article by CSH's Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan, and co-authors, provides greenhouse gas emission factors for the different healthcare waste streams in the UK.

Highlights:

Journal of Cleaner Production

December, 2020

Environmental impact of PPE in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Article: Environmental impact of Personal Protective Equipment supplied to health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chantelle Rizan, Malcolm Reed, Mahmood F Bhutta

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

December, 2020

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Nominations are open for the first Greener AHP Award

This year's Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) Awards has the category of Greener AHP Award for the first time.

New postgraduate module - Sustainable Healthcare Principles

The University of Brighton

Cutting unnecessary glove use: New guidance issued on glove use and selection

Clear guidance on glove use and selection is included in the new NHS 'National infection prevention and control manual for England'

MENTAL HEALTH AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS - ELFT CONFERENCE

For those who missed it this conference with an excellent presentation by the awesome Caroline Hickman from the Climate Psychology Alliance on the

Glove Awareness Week resources: 2 May to 6 May 2022

Glove Awareness Week runs from the 2nd to 6th May this year and focuses on encouraging nursing staff - and medical and health care professionals - to make one change to reduce their unnecessary glove use and help make health care more sustainable. RCN resources available.

Next walking aid reuse drop-in session - 9th May @ 12pm

As many of you will know, the net zero and sustainable procurement team has been working with NHS trusts across England on a range of walking-aid r

AHP examples of digital transformation

One of the themes on the Greener AHP Hub is

SHARE conference - 6 May 2022 - Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

SHARE conference - Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

£7.45m funding available for two new research units

The Health Foundation’s REAL Centre has launched an ambitious new programme that will provide independent research that builds on the work of the REAL Centre, to help improve long-term decision making in health and social care. There may be good opportunities to propose research through the lens of sustainability.

Help shape CSH Networks & win a CSH course!

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