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The Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) network was begun in June 2009 by a group of clinicians, academics and students interested in supporting the goals of NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy (2009) by…

The article proposes some ways in which carbon footprints can be used to inform strategy for sustainable healthcare and highlights areas to apply caution.

It is well established that the climate crisis threatens global public health, and the healthcare sector, tasked with protecting human well-being, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.…

Podiatrists, as allied health professionals, have wide community engagement, and hence, can model positive environmental practices, which may be effective in changing wider community behaviours, as…

If you are wondering what sustainability means for mental health care, take a look at this short 3-minute film. RCPsych Research Fellow in Sustainability 2013-15, Dr Daniel Maughan, based at the…

These are the slides from the Saving Resources, Improving Health: Sustainable Occupational Therapy in Practiceevent at COT HQ on November 21st 2014. The day's consensus statement can be found here…

Update on SHE Network activities in 2011-12 - including award of HEA grant, GMC liaison, draft curriculum consultation, conference presentations and workshops, publications by SHE members.

This two-part review addresses the pressing need for environmental sustainability in dermatological surgery, driven by the National Health Service’s commitment to net-zero emissions. Part 2 of this…

Dissertation by Caroline Tomes, reading for MPhil in Public Health, University of Cambridge 2010-11. (Thesis supervised by Stefi Barna, University of East Anglia) Objective: Climate change has been…

Consensus statement and videos from theRoyal College of Psychiatrists Sustainability Summit -1st October, 2014 Summit Consensus Statement on Sustainability in Mental Health "Sustainability in…