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Cycling for Sustainability - A ride to the summit

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28 Oct 2015
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Michael Pearce
My alarm buzzed at 03:40am, bleary eyed I stretched across to switch it off assuming I had made an alarm-setting mistake… then it dawned on me that it wasn’t a mistake, and that I had signed up to…
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Psychiatrists cycle to deliver sustainability pledge in Mental Health

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27 Oct 2015
by
Frances Mortimer
Four psychiatrists including Royal College of Psychiatrists Registrar, Dr Adrian James are showing their commitment to sustainability in mental health by cycling 65 miles from Oxford to London. Dr…
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Sustainability and environmental justice in medical ethics education

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22 Oct 2015
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Alistair Wardrope
The third of the Priority Learning Outcomes for Sustainable Healthcare requires that medical students: Discuss how the duty of a doctor to protect and promote health is shaped by the dependence of…
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AMEE 2015: sustainability takes the stage in medical education

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17 Sep 2015
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Frances Mortimer
It was exciting to see sustainability centre stage at the major international medical education conference, AMEE 2015, which took place in Glasgow earlier this month. Dr Sarah Walpole, Research…
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RCPsych Sustainability Scholarship 2015-2016

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17 Sep 2015
by
Suhana Ahmed
In June this year, the RCPsych Sustainability Scholarship Programme 2015 -2016 was advertised. Higher trainees in Psychiatry were offered the chance to apply and be supported by the Centre for…
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Mental Health and Sustainability

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7 Sep 2015
by
Ingeborg Steinbach
A PsychSusnet member Toby Pillinger interviews Daniel Maughan about his work on spreading awareness about sustainability across mental health services throughout his time as the RCPsych Sustainability…
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Young People with Dementia (YPWD) - My day with the charity

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15 Aug 2015
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Michael Pearce
Nervously en-route to the morning'sactivity of choir singing my head was ringing with painful memories of standing at the back of church warbling tunelessly along to obscurehymns. Little did I know…
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Work with healthcare students to educate and act on energy, the environment, and health

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29 Jul 2015
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Alistair Wardrope
Are you an academic or health professional working on sustainable healthcare or environmental health? Would you be able to help healthcare students engage with "the greatest threat to global health of…
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Lancet Commission Podcast about the health effects of our unsustainable ways of living

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27 Jul 2015
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Far-reaching changes to the structure and function of the Earth's natural systems represent a growing threat to human health. By unsustainably exploiting nature's resources, human civilisation has…