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New report shows impact of social prescribing on health service use and costs.
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Dr Elaine O’Connell Francischetto (Lead author), Joelle Bradly and Katy Knight – Evidence and Evaluation Team at the National Academy for Social Prescribing
The little known effect of NO2 (Entonox) anesthetic gas on the ozone layer. Normally associated with by-products of industrial revolution and vehicle exhaust , it is now the main contributor to ozone…
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August 2021
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Lopes, Ritaa; Shelton, Cliffb, C; Charlesworth, Mike
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This practical guide for primary care provides a context-specific introduction to the sustainability challenges associated with good health-care delivery and provides easy-to-implement…
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Health systems are significant contributors to carbon emissions, and the effects of climate change negatively impact human health. The chapter outlines the role of healthcare providers…
Quality improvement (QI) projects are a mandatory part of postgraduate medical training in the UK and graduating medical students must be competent in QI theory. We evaluated an educational toolkit…
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Spooner, R., Stanford, V., Parslow-Williams, S., Mortimer, F., & Leedham-Green, K.
The healthcare sector is a major contributor to climate change and there are international calls to mitigate environmental degradation through more sustainable forms of clinical care. The UK…
There is a pressing need for more sustainable healthcare. UK medical graduates are required to apply social, economic, and environmental principles of sustainability to their practice. The Centre for…
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Clery P, d'Arch Smith S, Marsden O, and Leedham-Green K.
This 10-minute video was developed by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare QI Education Project. It provides an introduction to sustainable healthcare and the 'SusQI' approach to embedding…
An excellent resource produced by RCPCH climate change working group- focused on action in the UK but could be useful for others too.
This toolkit has been produced to support you to contact your…
