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NEW Association of Anaesthetists Green Star Awards

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22 Oct 2019
by
Cathy Lawson
What a whirlwind couple of months it has been! There seems to be a real appetite for sustainable anaesthesia now which is great to see. We’ve had a few exciting developments that have come to the fore…
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New Anaesthetists Environmental Champions Network

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22 Oct 2019
by
Frances Mortimer
Environmental champions are being sought for every anaesthetic department in the UK and Ireland. The volunteer roles will besupported by the Association of Anaesthetists, which will provide regular…
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Interview with Chantelle Rizan: a surgeon raising the profile of research in Sustainability in Surgery

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17 Oct 2019
by
Charlotte Holbrook
Hi, in what I hope will be the first in an occasional series of interviews(!), I recently had the opportunity to ask Chantelle Rizan about her research work in sustainability in surgery. Chantelle is…
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Update from our first W.I.S.E. Sustainability Scholar in Ophthalmology

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16 Oct 2019
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
Clare Morgan is CSH's first W.I.S.E. (Wales, Ireland, Scotland England) Sustainable Ophthalmology Scholar in Scotland supported by a grant from Bausch and Lomb during 2019. Bausch and Lomb’s funding…
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An essay competition to share with your students

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15 Oct 2019
by
Sarah Walpole
Submit your essay on climate change to our competition The RSTMH Student Essay Competition is for full-time students studying global health as a degree or a component of a degree, based anywhere in…
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A healthy dose of disruption? Transformative change for health and societal wellbeing

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1 Oct 2019
by
Jacqueline Cutting
The Autumn issue of Eurohealth includes an article by CSH's Director, Rachel Stancliffe, on 'The Global Climate Crisis: a Public Health Emergency.' The article covers how climate crisis, the…
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Support from the Royal College of Surgeons of England for Sustainable Surgery PhD

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27 Sep 2019
by
Frances Mortimer
We are delightedthat our CSH Sustainable Surgery Fellow, Chantelle Rizan has been awarded a Surgical Research Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng). This supports her PhD…
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CSH Education Fellowship, the first few weeks…

Created on
27 Sep 2019
by
Stuart d'Arch Smith
As a person, and now as father, I feel like I’ve always known on some level that the relationship between humans and the environment is a fragile one. But in recent years it has become abundantly…
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We need to talk about Des...

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25 Sep 2019
by
Kenneth Barker
I thought members of the network may be interested in hearing about our work at Raigmore Hospital, where we managed to reduce our carbon emissions from volatile agents by 4.5% (from 5%) to…
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AMEE Conference 2020 Glasgow - Abstracts due!

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23 Sep 2019
by
Stefi Barna
The International Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) will hold its 2020 conference in Glasgow, just before COP 26 in Glasgow. 'Introducing sustainable health care into health…