This Canadian article differentiates between 'ecological' and ‘environmental’ determinants of health.
Gillian Parker, Whitney Berta, Christine Shea, Fiona Miller
An open-access recording of this webinar from September 2019 is now available via the AMEE website.
Newly qualified midwives will now be required to know about sustainable healthcare. The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has included sustainable healthcare in its new Standards of Pro
Health Care Without Harm and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments partnered on the “Nurses Climate Challenge” with the aim of nurses educating 5,000 health professionals on climate and h
Honeycomb Dental Clinic is an independent general dental practice in Winscombe, Somerset with a strong environmentally sustainable ethos.
Health Care’s Climate Footprint: How the Health Secto
Last week Doctors for XR took part in non-violent direct action in London. This short film is useful for starting a discussion with students on Learning Objective 3:
For anyone involved in teaching medical ethics, I wonder if this letter to the GMC might make an interesting focus for discussion with your students about the role of the health professions in
This patient- and clinician-facing website gives guidance on choosing inhalers with lower environmental impact - something which is now included in the BTS asthma guidelines.
Are you confident in teaching patients how to use their inhalers?
Read our pesrpectives as final year medical students on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into medical education curricula through quality improvement projects.
Section 8.6 of the new BTS/SIGN Guideline for the management of asthma highlights the environmental impact of metered dose inhalers (pMDI) and recommends that inhalers with low global-war
Resources on climate change and health have been developed by the Faculty of Public Health Sustainable Development Special Interest Group.
Very excitingly, the AOMRC has finally published its report, "Training for better outcomes: Developing quality improvement into practice", including a QI curriculum which embeds sustainab
This is an information tool to help people with asthma and their healthcare professionals discuss their options for inhaler devices.
RCN resources to use in your workplace to raise awareness of appropriate glove use - these include a poster, a leaflet and a selfie board.
