A peer network to support teaching sustainable healthcare and planetary health: (1) understand the links between human health and the environment; (2) develop skills to bring about a sustainable health service; (3) discuss the duty of a health professional to protect the health of the public in a time of global environmental change.

SusQI, motion to BMA

I've just submitted this motion to our Junior Doctors Committee, to see if we can get some BMA support for Sustainability in Quality Improvement...

Plast

Check out our article examining plastics in healthcare published today in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine- we found 101 pieces si

Upcoming webinars on sustainable nursing

Three upcoming webinars on the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education website:

Are you looking for a role in education for sustainable healthcare?

Two opportunities are now open at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare: one is for replacement of our current QI Education Fellow next year, and the other for a long term staff role at CSH working on this and other projects. Apply by 10 February.

Prescribing Movement resource

This toolkit gives you everything you need for a 1 minute, 5 minute and even more minute conversation, complete with step-by-step guides, behavioural change insights and all the evidence to back it up.

Moving Medicine

January, 2020

Planetary Health Campus Ambassador program applications due 31 Dec

Last call! Applications for the 2020 Campus Ambassador program are due for interested students.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: CSH Education Lead for Quality Improvement

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is recruiting to a new full-time, permanent position based at least two days per week in our office in Oxford. Application deadline 10 February.

Promoting electric vehicle uptake, a job for the NHS?

If you know anyone who could help to spread the word about the potential value in the NHS taking on the electric charging issue it would be gr

Sustainability in QI Education project launched!

CSH is launching a two-year project in partnership with KCL, the Health Foundation and Health Education England to support the integration of sustainability into undergraduate and postgraduate education on healthcare quality improvement.

Calling Jr Doctors! Prizes in Medical Education

The Junior Association for the Study of M

Sustainability incorporated into RCOT learning and development standards

The new RCOT learning and development standards have been published, which you can find

Any occupational therapy educators here?

Hi everyone

Integrating Sustainable Healthcare and Planetary Health into the curriculum at Lancaster Medical School

Collaboration welcome!

Ecological determinants of health and an eco-social approach to public health education

This Canadian article differentiates between 'ecological' and ‘environmental’ determinants of health.

Parkes, M.W., Poland, B., Allison, S. et al. Can J Public Health (2019). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-019-00263-8

December, 2019

NMC includes sustainable healthcare in midwifery curriculum

Newly qualified midwives will now be required to know about sustainable healthcare. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has included sustainable healthcare in its new Standards of Proficiency for Midwives, published last month.

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

November, 2019

We're scaling up to carbon-neutral healthcare

The recent huge interest in climate change has created an unprecedented demand for our charity to help people to take action.

New article on planetary health and primary care

Planetary health and primary care: what’s the emergency?

Terry Kemple British Journal of General Practice 2019; 69 (688): 536-537. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp19X706145

November, 2019

New article: 'Environmental competencies for healthcare educators and trainees'

Environmental competencies for healthcare educators and trainees: A scoping review

Gillian Parker, Whitney Berta, Christine Shea, Fiona Miller

Health Education Journal, Nov 11, 2019

https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896919886599

November, 2019

MSc in Environmental Management

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Sustainability taking centre stage at TransformMedEd 2020

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Teaching and learning of sustainable healthcare in the medical education curriculum

Congratulations and thanks to SanYuMay for this extremely helpful article summarising current knowledge on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into the medical curriculum.

Free downloads are available via the green PDF button on the link below.

Medical Teacher

June, 2019

Sustainable Healthcare Education case studies 2016-17

Case studies from 2016/17 onwards from eight medical and health professional schools in the UK, Brazil and USA.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare & Healthy Planet UK

July, 2018

GMC requires medical schools to teach sustainable healthcare

The GMC's new Outcomes for Graduates 2018 now requires newly-qualified doctors to be able to apply the principles, methods and knowledge of sustain

Sustainability in QI - the time has come!

Health systems are in constant need of improvement - and in some cases total redesign.

Sustainability in Quality improvement - 2 articles

2 papers published in the Future Healthcare Journal put forward a simple approach for incorporating sustainability into mainstream QI methodologies: the ‘SusQI’ framework.

Mortimer F, Isherwood J, Wilkinson A, Pearce M, Kenward C, Vaux E. Future Healthcare Journal, 2018

June, 2018

Vision and Objectives for the Sustainable Healthcare Education network

“All students in health professional degrees are able to explain the relevance of planetary health to human health and healthcare and apply skills for improving the sustainability of healthcare. This knowledge informs the behaviours and activities of health professionals, who promote health by incorporating environmental sustainability in their workplaces and professional roles.”

Sustainability Series: An educational resource on sustainable healthcare specialties

In celebration of our 10th birthday, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare have launched the

Curriculum Resource For Sustainable Healthcare Education

We have put together a resource list and report for health professionals in dentistry, nursing, medicine, and pharmacy who are interested in teachi

Development of a Health Professions Curriculum on Environmental Sustainability and Health

This video outlines the process of developing a health professions curriculum on environmental sustainability and health in the United States.

March, 2017

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

Browse this Networks's Resources in the Resource Library

Prescribing Movement resource

Moving Medicine

January, 2020

Ecological determinants of health and an eco-social approach to public health education

This Canadian article differentiates between 'ecological' and ‘environmental’ determinants of health.

Parkes, M.W., Poland, B., Allison, S. et al. Can J Public Health (2019). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-019-00263-8

December, 2019

NMC includes sustainable healthcare in midwifery curriculum

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

November, 2019

New article on planetary health and primary care

Planetary health and primary care: what’s the emergency?

Terry Kemple British Journal of General Practice 2019; 69 (688): 536-537. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp19X706145

November, 2019

New article: 'Environmental competencies for healthcare educators and trainees'

Environmental competencies for healthcare educators and trainees: A scoping review

Gillian Parker, Whitney Berta, Christine Shea, Fiona Miller

Health Education Journal, Nov 11, 2019

https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896919886599

November, 2019

Webinar recording: Approaches to learning in sustainable healthcare and quality improvement

An open-access recording of this webinar from September 2019 is now available via the AMEE website.

Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)

November, 2019

Doctors in Rebellion video resource for LO3

Another useful video for starting a conversation on Sustainable Healthcare Education Learning Outcome 3: Discuss the duty of a doctor to protect and promote health in a time of global environmental change Doctors for Extinction Rebellion talking about health and the climate crisis:

RubberRepublic

October, 2019

A National Nurse-led Campaign to Engage 5,000 Health Professionals Around Climate Change

Health Care Without Harm and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments partnered on the “Nurses Climate Challenge” with the aim of nurses educating 5,000 health professionals on climate and health.

October, 2019

Ethics teaching: letter to GMC

For anyone involved in teaching medical ethics, I wonder if this letter to the GMC might make an interesting focus for discussion with your students about the role of the health professions in responding to the climate crisis.

Dr Chris Newman, Doctors for XR

September, 2019

Ethics teaching: Doctors for Extinction Rebellion video resource

Last week Doctors for XR took part in non-violent direct action in London. This short film is useful for starting a discussion with students on Learning Objective 3:

September, 2019

SusQI, motion to BMA

I've just submitted this motion to our Junior Doctors Committee, to see if we can get some BMA support for Sustainability in Quality Improvement...

Plast

Check out our article examining plastics in healthcare published today in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine- we found 101 pieces si

Upcoming webinars on sustainable nursing

Three upcoming webinars on the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education website:

Are you looking for a role in education for sustainable healthcare?

Planetary Health Campus Ambassador program applications due 31 Dec

Last call! Applications for the 2020 Campus Ambassador program are due for interested students.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: CSH Education Lead for Quality Improvement

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare is recruiting to a new full-time, permanent position based at least two days per week in our office in Oxford. Application deadline 10 February.

Promoting electric vehicle uptake, a job for the NHS?

If you know anyone who could help to spread the word about the potential value in the NHS taking on the electric charging issue it would be gr

Sustainability in QI Education project launched!

Calling Jr Doctors! Prizes in Medical Education

The Junior Association for the Study of M

Sustainability incorporated into RCOT learning and development standards

The new RCOT learning and development standards have been published, which you can find

Might environmental sustainability renew the teaching of medical ethics?

See this BMJ article by Daniel Sokol, and opportunity for discussion via rapid responses: http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6415/rr-4

SHE SUMMER SCHOOL

SHE SUMMER SCHOOL in UK: please add your thoughts

WHO TO BE INVOLVED:

Medsin, Healthy Planet, CSH, Universities, regional groups

FUNDING:

Who to apply to? Who could host?

WHAT TEACHING:

Students could do papers on how sustainability is relevant to specific specialties

October 25 SHE meeting 20:00-21:00 UK time

Via Google hangout The agenda is as follows. - introductions - goals of the group following on from recent Helsinki discussions - projects in progress (student survey, - other strategies and activities to put in place to work towards our goals - future comms, next meeting

Help Gather a Living List of Sustainability Research Priorities

Living List of Sustainability Research Priorities

Vision for the Sustainable Healthcare Education network (draft)

Please do make changes to the text, if you have edits to make, as well as posting comments underneath.

This is a draft mission statement of the Sustainable Healthcare Education network (SHE), developed by the core SHE team. It incorporates five year goals, but is for review and further discussion and development by network participants.

Sustainable Healthcare Education Network - Mission Statement

International group working on Sustainable Healthcare Education - Next meeting outline

Upcoming October meeting for the SHE international working group - date and time to be confirmed - if you would like to attend please complete this doodle poll and you will be notified of the outcome in due course.

https://doodle.com/poll/vdxnnrccufcr2825

Past Meeting

GMC consultation on the Medical Licensing Assessment - ends 30th April 2017

The GMC is consulting on the Medical Licensing Assessment which will apply to UK medical students, EEA and International graduates and aims “to create a single, objective demonstration that those applying for registration with a licence to practise medicine in the UK can meet a common threshold for safe practice.” (GMC-MLA consultation)

Sharing advice about E-learning about environmental sustainability

There are many existing e-learning resources about environmental sustainability. It could be useful both for learners and for those planning courses if we can develop this list / 'catalogue' of e-resources.

If you have experience of using any of the below, or time to explore them, please add your comments - you can do so by logging in to the Sustainable Healthcare Education network, going to the 'wiki' tab, selecting this wiki, and then clicking on 'edit'.

International group working on Sustainable Healthcare Education

Following a workshop at AMEE 2016, medical educators and students from around the world have been working together to develop approaches to developing and delivering Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE).

The group includes representatives from Denmark, Brazil, South Africa, Canada and USA. So far, we have:

- worked to further explore the relevance of the SHE core learning objectives (developed in UK consultation by the SHE network) internationally, drawing on outcomes from the workshop, which included international participants

Videos for sustainable healthcare teaching

Please add your recommendations (under the most relevant learning outcome) for short videos or animations to use in sustainable healthcare teaching:

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Teaching and learning of sustainable healthcare in the medical education curriculum

Congratulations and thanks to SanYuMay for this extremely helpful article summarising current knowledge on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into the medical curriculum.

Free downloads are available via the green PDF button on the link below.

Medical Teacher

June, 2019