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Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

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28 Jun 2019
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Stefi Barna
"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of…
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Simon Stevens shores up public health provision; implications for Sustainable Healthcare

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9 Jun 2019
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As reported in this weeks' BMJ, Simon Stevens, has said that the NHS will commission public services in areas where local authorities are allocating insufficient funding due to council spending cuts.…
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World environment day

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4 Jun 2019
by
Nicola Hawkey
Hi folks #WorldEnvironmentDay Weds 5 June is World Environment Day and we have a few social media posts planned around dental sustainability and we will be tweeting about the CSH toolkit, the…
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New British Dental Journal 'Sustainable Dentistry' section online

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15 May 2019
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Sara Harford
Great news for Sustainable Dentistry! As part of the new British Dental Journal (BDJ) website they havecreated a section which brings together all of the recently publishedevidence-based papers on…
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Climate advocacy networking

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2 May 2019
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Frances Mortimer
Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected. Many of us therefore feel that we should use our position to speak out and make sure that people know about the climate emergency and the…
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Acid concentrate dilution

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29 Nov 2018
by
Fraser Gilmour
From the sustainability session discussions at the recent ART conference it was identified that there are still a significant number of UK trusts using 1:34 dilution acidinstead of the stronger and…
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New Colgate TerraCycle Oral Care Product Recycling Programme

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21 Nov 2018
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Sara Harford
Fantastic news in support of environmentally sustainable dental care! Worldwide consumer oral hygiene product company Colgate have partnered up with TerraCycle to launch a new free programme in the UK…
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"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

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15 Nov 2018
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James Szymankiewicz
"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing. We look for the causes of disease and aim to change behaviour to improve outcomes. We have a…
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Scottish CDO raises issue of plastic waste

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30 Oct 2018
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Mark Platt
Wonder if anyone caught this in the Scottish Daily Mail (23/10): 4.7m cups thrown away by dentists every year DENTISTS in Scotland are throwing away a shocking 4.7million plastic cups a…
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Sustainability sessions at the Association of Renal Technologists Conference 2018

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18 Oct 2018
by
Fraser Gilmour
Great presentation by Dr Frances Mortimer at the recent ART conference in Grantham on the challenges we face to reduce our impact on resourceswhen providing healthcare and the work the green…