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Abstract The healthcare sector is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Gases that contribute to climate change include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons.…

Project completed as part of the 2023-4 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Green Team Competition. Team members • Dr Kay Stewart Consultant in Palliative Medicine • Dr Hayley Evans SpR in…

Abstract BackgroundHuman health is inextricably linked to planetary health. The desire to nurture and protect both concurrently requires the mitigation of healthcare-associated environmental harms…

New guidance,Education for sustainable healthcare within UK pre-registration curricula for allied health professions, sets the groundwork for the next generation of health and care professionals. It…

Hello all Happy to share a recently published article that look at new clinical reasoning (professional reasoning) that can specifically target environmental sustainable healthcare provision. The…

This is a interesting alternative to the CSH principles of sustainable healthcare and the GNHS workstreams. 'We propose five policy principles: 1. Reduce healthcare demand through increased…

Sustainable Healthcare Education—a network of academics, doctors, and health-care students—has developed three simple learning objectives to communicate the links between medical practice and a more…

The aims of this report are to (1) inform Medical Royal Colleges about sustainability initiatives occurring within other colleges, to (2) share knowledge about college-led sustainability initiatives…

TheWorld Health Organization (WHO) andtheWorld Meteorological Organization (WMO) launched ClimaHealth, a platform putting together information and resources on climate and environmental science…

A collaboration between the NHS, the voluntary sector and academia has produced new advice for commissioning training on sustainability.