OTnews article by Ben Whittaker and Sonia Roschnik exploring sustainable healthcare, with examples of sustainable occupational therapy practice.
A resource created by a group of GPs, medical students and others to engage the primary care community towards Greener Practice: actions that improve the health of both people and planet.
John Agar and Katherine Barraclough have produced a fantastic review looking at the impacts of environmental change on kidney health as well as the environmental damage caused by kidney s
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?
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
Congratulations and thanks to SanYuMay for this extremely helpful article summarising current knowledge on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into the medical curriculum.
This collection of papers from the British Dental Journalexplores how dentistry can be carried out more sustainably and covers topics including procurement, climate change,
Green Impact is a sustainability accreditation scheme with an audit and awards element designed specifically for dental practices.
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, with funding from Health Education England, has developed a free-to-access Guide for improving the sustainability of a dental practice.
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
Sustainability has been recognised as a domain of quality in healthcare, and building it into quality improvement (QI) is a practical way to drive incremental change towards a more ethical, sustain
This framework has been developed as a practical tool for service development or commissioning of sustainable mental health services.
This video outlines the process of developing a health professions curriculum on environmental sustainability and health in the United States.
This half hour video looks at the health effects of climate change in six countries around the world. It is intended to help students in medicine, nursing and public health understand the con
Interested in Sustainable dentistry and how to make your clinical practice more eco and patient friendly as well as make cost savings?
Nephrologist, Charlie Tomson, gives an overview of the challenge of reducing carbon in the NHS and potential solutions - from energy and waste reduction to Sustainable Care Pathways.
