A network for occupational therapy practitioners, students and educators interested in exploring sustainable practice and looking for resources.

Find more information about Sustainable Occupational Therapy here, and our resource library here.

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada.

Request for OT representation for the AHP Food and Diet working group

Environmental sustainability is one of the Chief Allied Health Professions officers key work programmes for 2020/21 .

AHP Environmental sustainability survey closing 31st July 2020

We have had a phenomenal response to the survey with over 800 responses with 74 so far from Occupational Therapists, would be great to get more.&nb

The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.

July, 2020

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

WFOT Bulletin: Sustainability Special Issue

This week saw the publication of a special edition of the WFOT Bulletin, with articles about the incorporation of sustainability into occ

Coronavirus, Climate Change & OT

I’m sure that Coronavirus is on everyones minds at the moment.

Occupational therapy involvement post flooding

I'd like to speak with UK occupational therapists that have been involved in adaptations to people's homes post flooding.

Become an Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer

We have a vacancy for an Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

February Reflective Questions

On my last post I proposed a New Years sustainable OT goal - to read through the

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

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.

Reflective Questions for December/January

Following on from Ben Whittakers post, it is great news that the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) have included the WFOT 5 Guiding P

Sustainability incorporated into RCOT learning and development standards

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

Where to start?

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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 Sustainable Occupational Therapy Volunteer

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Examples of sustainable occupational therapy practice wanted

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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

10:10 OT checklist

Tick off 10 actions to cut CO2 by 10% in your occupational therapy department

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

April, 2010

I'm an OT - what can I do?

Browse this Networks's Resources in the Resource Library

The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.

July, 2020

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

Prescribing Movement resource

Moving Medicine

January, 2020

Making Sense of Social Prescription

The University of Westminster has published an excellent explanatory document on social prescription. It's a fantastic end to end resource with explanations of terminology, structures, different types of social prescription, and referral examples.

August, 2017

Quality Improvement: Creatively Designing Sustainable Services

Slides from workshop at 2017 annual RCOT conference (session 67).

June, 2017

Sustainability in Quality Improvement learning resources

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2017

Sustainability Matters: Exploring WFOT's Guiding Principles on Sustainable Development

Poster from the COT Annual Conference 2016, exploring the World Federation of Occupational Therapists forthcoming 'Sustainability Matters' document.

World Federation of Occupational Therapists

July, 2016

Healthcare professionals: reduce meat consumption to tackle climate change and improve public health

Healthcare professionals have a responsibility to educate the population about health and reduce threats to public health.

Saving Resources, Improving Health: Sustainable Occupational Therapy in Practice

These are the slides from the Saving Resources, Improving Health: Sustainable O

Sonia Roschnik, Ben Whittaker, Linda Hindle, Genevieve Smyth

October, 2014

Personality disorder: using a recovery approach

This poster from the COT Annual Conference 2014 explores two Recovery Support Centres in Sussex, Bluebell House in Burgess Hill and the Lighthouse in Hove. It briefly mentions 'triple bottom line' benefits of their recovery approach.

Ben Whittaker, Jennie Hallett, Adele Huxley and Renee Harvey

May, 2014

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada.

Request for OT representation for the AHP Food and Diet working group

Environmental sustainability is one of the Chief Allied Health Professions officers key work programmes for 2020/21 .

AHP Environmental sustainability survey closing 31st July 2020

We have had a phenomenal response to the survey with over 800 responses with 74 so far from Occupational Therapists, would be great to get more.&nb

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

WFOT Bulletin: Sustainability Special Issue

This week saw the publication of a special edition of the WFOT Bulletin, with articles about the incorporation of sustainability into occ

Coronavirus, Climate Change & OT

I’m sure that Coronavirus is on everyones minds at the moment.

Occupational therapy involvement post flooding

I'd like to speak with UK occupational therapists that have been involved in adaptations to people's homes post flooding.

Become an Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer

We have a vacancy for an Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

February Reflective Questions

On my last post I proposed a New Years sustainable OT goal - to read through the

Has anyone ever organised a...

Has anyone ever organised a litter picking event with patients? Our unit is next to a stream and community park which is often very littered. I have some interest from a few patients to try to maintain these areas for the local community. I'm guessing I could approach the local council but I'm not sure where I would stand with insurance etc. If anyone has any advice I would be really grateful. Thank you.

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