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

Introductory blog from CSH's newest Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer

Hello everyone, my name Anna Michell and I have become the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare’s (CSH) newest Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer. My role with CSH will be to write up case studies about current sustainable Occupational Therapy practice and help with the development of the involvement of Occupational Therapists in the NHS Forest Project.

"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing.

Become an Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteer!

We have a vacancy on our team of three Occupational Therapy Sustainability Volunteers at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH).

Calling all Q members (Health Foundation) with a passion for sustainability

Calling all sustainability friends… are you a Q member (Health Foundation)?

CSH sustainability school

A quick reminder that CSH has its Sustainability School coming up soon!

The Role of Occupational Therapists in the NHS Forest

Welcome to my farewell post as an OT Sustainability Volunteer! One of my main projects recently has been writing a report looking at the

Exploring the role of education in sustainable occupational therapy

Occupational therapy, with its holistic approach to problem-solving and ability to understand complex contextual factors, is in a position to play

Request for Information: The Green Walking Project

Dear Members of Occupational Therapy Susnet,

Occupational Therapy Resource Map - start here!

Hi everyone!

The Sustainable Occupational Therapy Resource Map is now live and available here :

Sustainability in QI - the time has come!

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

Sign up to the CSH newsletter

We are going to be sending out a CSH newsletter next week..

Sustainability Symposium Reflections

Hi all,

Sustainability Series- The role of education in sustainable occupational therapy

The Sustainability Series is The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare's way of showcasing differnet sustainable clinical specialties in the run up to

Occupational Therapy: Improving Lives, Saving Money, Reducing Carbon

In March, 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.

How-to-Guide: Setting up a green space walking group for inpatients in mental health units

CSH is very pleased to announce that we received funding from the Network for Social Change (N4SC) for a project which, over the next year, will de

New publication on sustainable development from the Swedish Association of Occupational Therapist

Hi,

WFOT Launches Guiding Principles for Sustainability in Occupational Therapy

Last week saw the launch of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists publication ‘Sustainability Matters: Guiding Principles for Sustainabil

Free CPD Opportunity

Hi all,

Call for submissions: heatwaves (adapting to climate change) select committee inquiry

The House of Commons Select Committee for the environment, the Environmental Audit Committee, is calling for evidence as part of its heatwave enqui

Sustainability in QI - the time has come!

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

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

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 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

Want to be an eco warrior for your hospital or team?

This handbook was written for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clydes but provides useful information for anyone wanting to 'green' up their clinical practice!

It will help give you the tools to:

• Minimise waste, whether this be materials, energy or water