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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

Opportunity to write an e-learning module for sustainable anaesthesia

Keen to contribute to some e-learning resources on

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.

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.

Environmental Fellow update

It’s so great to see enthusiasm building and I’m doing my best to respond to queries and suggestions that you have all raised so far. Here’s

Sustainable Ophthalmology Scholarship in Wales - first Diary Entry

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NEW Association of Anaesthetists Green Star Awards

What a whirlwind couple of months it has been! There seems to be a real appetite for sustainable anaesthesia now which is great to see.

New Anaesthetists Environmental Champions Network

Environmental champions are being sought for every anaesthetic department in the UK and Ireland.

Interview with Chantelle Rizan: a surgeon raising the profile of research in Sustainability in Surgery

Hi, in what I hope will be the first in an occasional series of interviews(!), I recently had the opportunity to ask Chantelle Rizan about her rese

Update from our first W.I.S.E. Sustainability Scholar in Ophthalmology

Clare Morgan is CSH's first W.I.S.E.

Support from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for Sustainable Surgery PhD

We are delighted that our CSH Sustainable Surgery Fellow,

We need to talk about Des...

I thought members of the network may be interested in hearing about our work at Raigmore Hospital, where we managed to reduce our carbon emissions

Health Care’s Climate Footprint Report HCWH / ARUP

Health Care’s Climate Footprint: How the Health Sector Contributes to the Global Climate Crisis and Opportunities for Action.

September, 2019

UNDP and SPHS member agencies seek consultancy to develop the Sustainable Procurement Index for Health (SPIH)

This is as a globally established, recognized and adaptable measurement tool for policy makers, manufacturers, suppliers, procurers, and health car

Job advertisement: Fellow in environmentally sustainable anaesthesia 2020-21

Applications are now open for the 2020-21 fellowship in environmentally sustainable anaesthesia (closing date 29 September).

Senior Clinical Auditor, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

We are just starting to try and introduce and rationalise waste recycling into theatres (the trust does not recycle anything!). If anyone els

Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for wides

'Eyefficiency' has successfully undergone 2 rounds of beta-testing!

As reported a year ago, CSH has been awarded another Seeing is Believing Innovation Fund* grant for the second phase of developing with its partner

GASP - Greener Anaesthesia & Sustainability Project

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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

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

Nordic Know-How: Nitrous Oxide Destruction

The theme of this first report in the Nordic Know-How series is nitrous oxide destruction. Nitrous oxide substantially contributes to the climate footprint of the healthcare sector. This report provides good examples on how to reduce emissions of nitrous oxide in hospitals.

Nordic Center for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2020

Prescribing Movement resource

Moving Medicine

January, 2020

Health Care’s Climate Footprint Report HCWH / ARUP

Health Care’s Climate Footprint: How the Health Sector Contributes to the Global Climate Crisis and Opportunities for Action.

September, 2019

PVC Recovery case study - Dunedin NZ

May, 2019

Reduction and standardization of surgical instruments in pediatric inguinal hernia repair

One way of reducing waste in theatre is to think about the surgical instruments we use (or open and don’t use!).

Journal of Pediatric Urology February 2018 Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 20–24

February, 2019

A new role for anaesthetists in environmentally sustainable healthcare?

Our article published today! "The contribution of anaesthesia to the environmental impact of healthcare is significant and visible, but amenable to change. We believe that this places anaesthetists in an ideal position to lead educational initiatives on environmental sustainability."

C. L. Shelton, S. C. McBain, F. Mortimer, S. M. White. Anaesthesia.

March, 2019

Hello!

Hi all, I'm Chris, the new Fellow in sustainable anaesthesia, having recently taken over from the wonderful Cathy Lawson.

Three days left to apply for Sustainability Volunteer positions

The closing date for applications for three Sustainblity Volunteer positions at CSH is this Monday 14th September at 9am

Welsh Environmental Anaesthesia Network (WEAN) newsletter

Amazing newsletter - loads of info and success stories from WEAN - and an invitation to their annual meeting on 21 October 2020.

Webinar: The importance of sustainability in the surgical profession

Join us tomorrow evening for a webinar hosted by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on 'The importance of sustainability in the surgical pro

Sustainable Surgery Survey

We would like to invite all surgeons and surgical trainees to complete a survey on the behaviours, attitudes and practice of surgeons towards envir

Opportunity for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at CSH

A position is available for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

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

Royal College of Surgeons Bulletin Sustainability Issue

The Royal College of Surgeons of England have dedicated their July issue of Bulletin to sustainability.

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

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Please can you complete our survey on reducing desflurane/nitrous oxide?

We are keen to get a snapshot of how people are trying to reduce the use of desflurane and nitrous oxide in their workplace.

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.

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March, 2017

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