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Sustainable Placements: Role Emerging and Leadership Placements for Students

Created on
18 Apr 2024
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Jacqueline Gordon
Greener AHP week has interesting events for educators and students including the great work done on leadership placements to encourage sustainability networks by Helen McAlinney in Yorkshire - come…
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Boot reuse pilot project & Greener AHP week

Created on
18 Apr 2024
by
Jacqueline Gordon
Dear colleagues, We are currently trying out a boot reuse pilot scheme - feasibility, problems for clinicians, etc. and working with some physio teams but need more involved. We are working with…
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Tree Planting and Conservation within Occupational Therapy

Created on
28 Mar 2024
by
Harriet White
Technical instructor in the Occupational Therapy Department, Alex Watkins, spoke to me about some projects he's been leading at Langdon Hospital. Alex initially led projects in the woodworking…
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CASCADES Publishes Sustainable Occupational Therapy Playbook

Created on
25 Mar 2024
by
Ben Whittaker
CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) have published the Sustainable Occupational Therapy playbook, which is available here. This playbook provides background…
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Getting involved in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

Created on
29 Jan 2024
by
Ben Whittaker
The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch took place this weekend, with over 5 million birds counted so far.There’s still time to get involved with service users or colleagues and tell the RSPB what birds you see…
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Reuse / Recycle Orthopaedic Air Walking Boot

Created on
21 Dec 2023
by
Jordan Trace
Orthopaedics and MSK departments use a lot of these boots annually. The majority of the boot is hard plastic and some is foam/fabric material. All of these are binned at the end of their use and I…
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Sustainability in Hand Therapy

Created on
10 Dec 2023
by
Pete Vesey
As my 18 month contract with RCOT drew to a close I was pleased to be able to represent RCOT at the British Association of Hand Therapist's annual conference on 6-7th Oct 2023. I was able to promote…
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It's that time of the year again - have you heard of the reverse advent calendar?

Created on
28 Nov 2023
by
Ka Yan Hess
Hello all Has anyone started thinking about Christmas already? It is hard to believe 2023 has flown by so quickly and we are heading for December in a few days. In the spirit of the upcoming…
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Opportunity for Practice Staff to take part in a brief 5-minute online survey about how their practice is (or isn’t) taking actions towards a Net Zero NHS.

Created on
15 Nov 2023
by
Raquel Nunes
Opportunity for Practice Staff in Coventry and Warwickshire ICB, Birmingham and Solihull ICB, and South Yorkshire ICB to take part in a brief 5-minute online survey about how their practice is…
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CQC Research on Medicine Sustainability

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2 Oct 2023
by
Nuala Hampson
The CQC Medicines Optimisation Team has secured funding for research to drive innovation and accelerate improvement in medicines sustainability. This project will deliver a suite of products to…