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.

Recording: National Allied Health Professions Sustainability Webinar

This is a recording of the AHP Sustainability webinar from June 18th 2020, part of the National Allied Health Professions fornightly webinar series.

June, 2020

AHP Sustainability Survey: Deadline Extended Until 31st July

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey has 11 questions and should take about 5-15 minutes to complete:

AHP Sustainability Survey: Four Days Left

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey is designed to help understand how Allied Health Professionals are addressing sustainability issue

Millions of Nurses Call The World To Action #HealthyRecovery

From the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, this a short video (see link below) which accompanies the

May, 2020

Utilizing off-the-shelf LCA methods to develop a ‘triple bottom line’ auditing tool for global cataract surgical services

The cataract surgery audit tool ‘Eyefficiency’ was designed to identify opportunities for sites to minimize the footprint of cataract surgical services and to increase access to cataract surgery for patients worldwide.

May, 2020

Postdoctoral scientists wanted on Climate Change and Health in Germany

Applications due May 15th for junior and senior postdoctoral scientists to join the newly established working grou

Rethinking health professions’ education leadership - Medical Teacher article

Rethinealth professions’ education leadership: Developing ‘eco-ethical’ leaders for a more sustainable world and future

April, 2020

Road traffic injuries and Covid-19

I thought this was really interseting - most of the reporting on the impact of economy shutdowns have understandably focussed on air quality - this

Coronavirus: How GPs have stopped seeing most patients in person

The GP profession has changed dramatically in just three weeks.

Australian university adopts ‘planetary health’ as raison d’être

[Participants needed] Study on Climate Change Communication and the Health Professions

Hello CSH network members,

Student Selected Component in Social Accountability - Climate change and health care teaching in a secondary school

3rd year medical students at Sheffield University have a student self selected placement in social accountability, which focusses on the social determinants of health.

June, 2018

FINAL CALL: Free training workshop on advising patients about air pollution

It your last chance to join a free training workshop on how to advise patients on air pollution. Our final workshop of this series wil

Healthcare’s response to the climate emergency: what would Greta say?

“Dad, are we really going to see Greta today?” my 11 year old daughter Poppy asked me on the train up to Bristol.

Global challenges in health and health care for nurses and midwives everywhere

"The next decade is likely to produce any number of global challenges that will affect health and health care. ....

Medact 2020 conference

Have a look at this conference! It will be a great opportunity for progressive people working in health care to learn and network.

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...

Plastics in Healthcare: Time for a re-evaluation

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.

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

Recording: National Allied Health Professions Sustainability Webinar

This is a recording of the AHP Sustainability webinar from June 18th 2020, part of the National Allied Health Professions fornightly webinar series.

June, 2020

Millions of Nurses Call The World To Action #HealthyRecovery

From the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, this a short video (see link below) which accompanies the

May, 2020

Utilizing off-the-shelf LCA methods to develop a ‘triple bottom line’ auditing tool for global cataract surgical services

May, 2020

Rethinking health professions’ education leadership - Medical Teacher article

Rethinealth professions’ education leadership: Developing ‘eco-ethical’ leaders for a more sustainable world and future

April, 2020

Student Selected Component in Social Accountability - Climate change and health care teaching in a secondary school

3rd year medical students at Sheffield University have a student self selected placement in social accountability, which focusses on the social determinants of health.

June, 2018

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

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

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

AHP Sustainability Survey: Deadline Extended Until 31st July

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey has 11 questions and should take about 5-15 minutes to complete:

AHP Sustainability Survey: Four Days Left

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey is designed to help understand how Allied Health Professionals are addressing sustainability issue

Postdoctoral scientists wanted on Climate Change and Health in Germany

Applications due May 15th for junior and senior postdoctoral scientists to join the newly established working grou

Road traffic injuries and Covid-19

I thought this was really interseting - most of the reporting on the impact of economy shutdowns have understandably focussed on air quality - this

Coronavirus: How GPs have stopped seeing most patients in person

The GP profession has changed dramatically in just three weeks.

Australian university adopts ‘planetary health’ as raison d’être

[Participants needed] Study on Climate Change Communication and the Health Professions

Hello CSH network members,

FINAL CALL: Free training workshop on advising patients about air pollution

It your last chance to join a free training workshop on how to advise patients on air pollution. Our final workshop of this series wil

Healthcare’s response to the climate emergency: what would Greta say?

“Dad, are we really going to see Greta today?” my 11 year old daughter Poppy asked me on the train up to Bristol.

Global challenges in health and health care for nurses and midwives everywhere

"The next decade is likely to produce any number of global challenges that will affect health and health care. ....

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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Ben Whittaker posted AHP Sustainability Survey: Deadline Extended Until 31st July in the Occupational Therapy Susnet, Commissioning Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable Operating Theatres, Green Nephrology, Education for Sustainable Healthcare , Sustainable Primary Care, Sustainable Respiratory Care, Psych Susnet, Dental Susnet, EyeHealth Susnet, Green Nurse Network, Critical Care Susnet, Green Endoscopy, AHP Susnet, and Sustainable Healthcare groups.

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Ben Whittaker posted AHP Sustainability Survey: Four Days Left in the Occupational Therapy Susnet, Commissioning Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable Operating Theatres, Green Nephrology, Education for Sustainable Healthcare , Sustainable Primary Care, Sustainable Respiratory Care, Psych Susnet, and EyeHealth Susnet groups.

Fri, 6/26/2020 - 4:58pm

Ben Whittaker created National Allied Health Professions Sustainability Webinar in the Occupational Therapy Susnet, Commissioning Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable Operating Theatres, Green Nephrology, Education for Sustainable Healthcare , Sustainable Primary Care, Sustainable Respiratory Care, Psych Susnet, and EyeHealth Susnet groups.

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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