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
Early mobilisation after open heart surgery reduced ventilation days by a mean of 4 days and reduced cardiac intensive care stay by a mean of 6 days.
This 7-week teaching program at Brighton and Sussex Medical School allows students to explore the impact of the healthcare industry on the environment.
Excellent and very specific article on curriculum re-design at Emory University in the US. Climate and health learning objectives mapped across the pre-clinical medical curriculum.
Honeycomb Dental Clinic is an independent general dental practice in Winscombe, Somerset with a strong environmentally sustainable ethos.
University of Dundee Medical School offers a 4 week SSC (Student Selected Component) entitled 'The Natural Health Service: biodiversity, ecosystems and human health'.
We describe a clinical-skills based approach to teaching medical and public health students the health effects of climate change. This resource presents eleven simulation exercises used with
Case studies from 2016/17 onwards from eight medical and health professional schools in the UK, Brazil and USA.
2 papers published in the Future Healthcare Journal put forward a simple approach for incorporating sustainability into mainstream QI methodologies: the ‘SusQI’ framework.&n
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Duane et al. “Carbon mitigation, patient choice and cost reduction – triple bottom line optimisation for health care planning” Public Health 2014 Oct;128(10):920–4
Environmental change poses pressing challenges to public health and calls for profound and far-reaching changes to policy and practice across communities and health systems.
A useful resource about how to teach on social (including environmental) determinants of health.
See case study 6 in particular!
This study used an audit approach to explore the potential for sustainability in dental practice by measuring the nature and quantity of dental clinical waste, and assessing the feasibility of meas
The dialysis unit in Central Manchester has reduced delivery miles by 75% (saving 8.3 tonnes CO2e) by switching to dry powder concentrate for haemodialysis.
Poster which was presented at the BTS winter meeting 2014.
Joint winners of the 2013 Green Nephrology Awards - Bristol Royal Hospital for Children for a water saving project initiated by Charge Nurse, Dan Speakman, and Bradford Teaching Hospitals for reduc
This document has a set of case studies from UK medical schools that have been trying out ways of teaching medical students about the links between climate, sustainability and health. Most of
Climate change is a key public health challenge of the 21st century. To address this we need to move to a more sustainable way of living and working.
