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'

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.

How to sign up, post and search on CSH Networks

Take a look at our handy one page guide that shows you:

how to sign up to the CSH Networks
how to create posts, resources and events
3 easy ways to seach for content

April, 2022

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

Sustainability self assessment tool for optical practices

The Association of British Dispensing Opticians has developed a tool for optical practices to help them assess their progress on the journey toward

£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

ACTION REQUIRED - Calling all those involved in Cataract Surgery - 1 tree will be planted for every 100 completed surveys

UK Attitudes towards waste in Cataract Surgery

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.

The Annual Carbon Footprint of NHS Sight Tests at Five Optometry Practices

Increasing UV radiation exposure, rising air pollution and warmer drier conditions pose a greater risk to human eye health. Climate change, caused by rising Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, can exacerbate these risk factors.

February, 2022

How does the optometry profession move up a gear to tackle the problem of climate change?

Morgan, T. and Ryan, B. (2021), How does the optometry profession move up a gear to tackle the problem of climate change?. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. https://doi.org/10.1111/opo.12920

November, 2021

UK attitudes towards waste in cataract surgery

Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgery in the world and the UK.

Greener AHP Hub launched

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

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

URGENT - COP26

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I wanted to say Hello! I'm Hayley Pinto - I have just joined CSH as the new Education and Training lead.

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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 QI - the time has come!

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

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

How to sign up, post and search on CSH Networks

Take a look at our handy one page guide that shows you:

how to sign up to the CSH Networks
how to create posts, resources and events
3 easy ways to seach for content

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

The Annual Carbon Footprint of NHS Sight Tests at Five Optometry Practices

Increasing UV radiation exposure, rising air pollution and warmer drier conditions pose a greater risk to human eye health. Climate change, caused by rising Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, can exacerbate these risk factors.

February, 2022

How does the optometry profession move up a gear to tackle the problem of climate change?

Morgan, T. and Ryan, B. (2021), How does the optometry profession move up a gear to tackle the problem of climate change?. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. https://doi.org/10.1111/opo.12920

November, 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

Case study: Keeping patients awake and safe for cataract surgery

This project, which came about as part of CSH's Green Ward Competition held at Barts Health in 2019, reduced the unnecessary listing of patients for general anaesthetic in cataract surgery, saving time, money and carbon.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare & Barts Health NHS 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'

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.

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

Sustainability self assessment tool for optical practices

The Association of British Dispensing Opticians has developed a tool for optical practices to help them assess their progress on the journey toward

£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.

ACTION REQUIRED - Calling all those involved in Cataract Surgery - 1 tree will be planted for every 100 completed surveys

UK Attitudes towards waste in Cataract Surgery

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.

Vision UK is looking to...

Vision UK is looking to celebrate NHS Sustainability Day (21st March) with a questionnaire to members about Sustainability. Ideally we need a really straightforward 10 questions. Any suggestions ?

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