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This paper addresses the qualities which are needed to be a nurse including being reselected, trustworthy, promoting positive health, preventing ill health, educating, informing and empowering the…
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Lukoye Atwoli, Abdullah H. Baqui, Thomas Benfield, Raffaella Bosurgi, Fiona Godlee, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Ian Norman
Within this article, the focus was to look at how climate change impacts the health status of patients, the significant lack of understanding around climate change, and the implications it has on…
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Thierno Diallo, Anouk Bérubé, Martin Roberge, Pierre-Paul Audate, Stephanie Larente-Marcotte, Édith Jobin, Nisrine Moubarak, Laurence Guillaumie , Sophie Dupéré, Anne Guichard, Isabelle, Goupil-Sormany
Recognised by UNESCO the Green Impact Awards program is delivered byStudents Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK)and designed to provide practical advice and tips to dental teams across the UK, that…
Marc Beaumont, sustainability lead from Hull University teaching hospital explains how his multi-disciplinary team achieved an 87% reduction in their Entonox emissions with an additional cost saving…
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Marc Beaumont, Head of Sustainability, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH)
A project I did back in 2019/2020 looking at staff attitudes to sustainability at University Hospital Southampton.
Over 1,100 responses.
Mix of scale answer questions with some free text options…
Setting/Patient Group: Trust-wide
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Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust estimate procurement of more than one million syringes in 2013 representing…
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 the ones…
Two final year medical students in Oxford took part in a two-week special study module (SSM) on “Sustainable Healthcare” in 2011-12. The students each chose to focus on one of the four dimensions of…
Setting/Patient Group: Operating Theatres
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Inappropriate waste segregation and disposal - all waste from clinical areas within the operating theatre setting was disposed of…
We ran a 5 week SSC for medical students May - June 2011. It was a full time SSC where the majority of time was spent on group project work and for three hours per week students attended tutorials…
